Data set from Education provision: children under 5 years of age

Percentage and Number of Providers and Children Registered with Graduate-Level Staff (2018 to 2021)

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Published 1 July 2021

Last updated 1 July 2021

Number and percentage of private, voluntary and independent providers and the number of children benefiting from funded early education at private, voluntary and independent providers with staff with graduate status by category of provider.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Education provision: children under 5 years of age
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of children registered
  • Number of children registered at providers having staff with a graduate status
  • Number of providers
• Filters:
  • Type of entitlement: funded or extended
  • Type of provider
• Time period: 2018 to 2021

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	entitlement_type	type_of_provider	number_providers	number_providers_with_graduate	percent_providers_with_graduate	number_benefiting	number_benefiting_at_provider_with_graduate	percent_benefiting_at_provider_with_graduate
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Funded entitlement	All providers	33281	11959	36	631242	321107	51
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Funded entitlement	All Private and voluntary providers	18524	8637	47	542251	274470	51
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Funded entitlement	Early Years Childcare Provider	17142	8128	47	512359	260883	51
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Funded entitlement	Sure Start Childrens Centre	308	133	43	8025	3636	45
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Funded entitlement	Other private or voluntary provider	1074	376	35	21867	9951	46

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
entitlement_type	Type of entitlement: funded or extended - Select type of entitlement: funded or extended
number_providers	Number of providers
number_providers_with_graduate	Number of providers having staff with a graduate status
number_registered	Number of children registered
number_registered_at_provider_with_graduate	Number of children registered at providers having staff with a graduate status

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Footnotes

1. Children who split their entitlement across more than one Private, Voluntary or Independent provider are only counted at the provider where they spend the majority of their time.
2. Since 2019, a data cleaning exercise with local authorities has improved data quality. Provider types are now more accurately recorded and caution should be taken when comparing across time.
3. 2021 is the first year of data covering COVID-19, collected during January's national lockdown. Open providers, or providers closed due to government guidance, made census returns relating to registered children's "expected attendance" in census week. Further information is available in the methodology.

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