Section 5 - Breakdown of total provider costs
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A breakdown of childcare providers' total costs into different categories
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- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Childcare and early years provider survey
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 7
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Staffing costs
- Rent or mortgage payments
- Materials such as books, toys or equipment
- Filters
- Provider type
- Time period
- 2025
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | provider_type | staff | rent_mortage | food | materials | training | business_rates | energy | recruiting_staff | other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Nursery class childcare settings | 88 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | x | x | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Maintained nursery school | 83 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | x | x | 0 | 13 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | All school-based providers | 88 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | x | x | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Private group-based | 74 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | Calendar year | National | E92000001 | England | Voluntary group-based | 82 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| business_rates | Business rates |
| energy | Energy bills |
| food | Food costs |
| materials | Materials such as books, toys or equipment |
| other | Other costs |
Footnotes
- "Nursery class childcare settings" often deliver classes to school-age children alongside their nursery provision. For these providers, it is difficult to identify how much of the providers' overhead costs - such as energy bills and business rates - are accounted for by nursery classes and how much are accounted for by other parts of the school. Therefore, unlike group-based providers, who were asked to report them separately, school-based providers were asked to estimate these costs and include them in "other costs".
- Childminder costs are not directly comparable with group-based provider and school-based provider costs. Childminders are not asked about their rent / mortgage or energy bills, because they work from their own home and would have to pay at least some of these costs, even if they didn't run a childminding business, and are not asked about business rates because they don't have to pay them. Childminder "staffing costs" are the sum of the amount that they pay their assistant(s) (if they have one) and the amount that they pay themselves in the form of a salary. In 2025, the question asking childminders about their personal income from childminding was changed, to clarify that this is money that they take from their business in the form of a salary (as opposed to fee income received by the business). This may explain why "staffing costs" make up a lower proportion of childminder costs in 2025 (70 per cent) than in 2024 (77 per cent).
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