Summer 2026 Codes Issued and Validated by IDACI
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Codes issued and validated by deprivation, as represented by Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) for Summer 2026 term.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated
- Release
- July 2026
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 30
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Codes issued for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term)
- Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term)
- Percentage of codes validated (Summer term)
- Filters
- IDACI Decile
- User Type
- Time period
- 2026
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | IDACI_Decile | user_type | codes_issued | codes_validated | percentage_validated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | Existing | 34036 | 31344 | 92.09 |
| 2026 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | New | 6960 | 5609 | 80.59 |
| 2026 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | Total | 40996 | 36953 | 90.14 |
| 2026 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 2 | Existing | 39964 | 37159 | 92.98 |
| 2026 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 2 | New | 7850 | 6414 | 81.71 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| codes_issued | Codes issued for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term) |
| codes_validated | Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term) |
| IDACI_Decile | IDACI Decile |
| percentage_validated | Percentage of codes validated (Summer term) |
| user_type | User Type |
Footnotes
- IDACI (Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index) is a UK measure of child poverty at the small-area level. It estimates the proportion of children under age 16 living in low-income households within each Lower-layer Super Output Area (LSOA). Areas are then ranked into ten deciles, where Decile 1 represents the most deprived areas and Decile 10 the least deprived.
- Eligibility Checking Service data was aggregated to local authorities using the child's postcode, and the ONS May 2026 postcode directory. Sometimes, a geography cannot be assigned, and the aggregate of LAs may not equal the full national total. This also means that validation rates can only be between 0% and 100%, as the same postcode is used for both (unlike in other statistics relating to entitlements).
- “Existing” users are defined as those who held an eligible code in the term immediately preceding the term shown. By contrast, “new” users are those whose codes have only just become eligible, whether because the child has reached the qualifying age or because the application was submitted during the current term.
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