Data set from Early years education recovery

Special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) qualification by local authority

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Published 4 July 2025

Last updated 4 July 2025

Number of settings and practitioners that have registered for completed the the qualification by local authority from October 2022 to November 2024.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Early years education recovery
• Release: July 2025
• Number of rows: 918
• Geographic levels: Local authority
• Indicators:
  • Number of practitioners
  • Number of settings
• Filters:
  • Status
• Time period: 2024 November to 2024 June

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	status	no_of_settings	no_of_practitioners
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	301	E09000002	Barking and Dagenham	Registered	13	14
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	301	E09000002	Barking and Dagenham	Completed	3	3
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	301	E09000002	Barking and Dagenham	Total local authority settings	169	x
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	302	E09000003	Barnet	Registered	34	35
2024	June	Local authority	E92000001	England	302	E09000003	Barnet	Completed	13	13

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 3 variables

Variable name	Variable description
no_of_practitioners	Number of practitioners
no_of_settings	Number of settings
status	Status

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Footnotes

1. Total number of settings in each LA, is the number of all childminders and group based settings. (Schools are not eligible for this strand).
2. 'x' indicates that data is not available.
3. Registration for the SENCO qualification closed in March 2024.
4. The first completions occurred in February 2023.
5. The SENCO training closed in November 2024.

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