Spring 2025 Local Authority Codes Issued and Validated
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Codes issued and validated for Spring 2025, by LA/Region/National, by age of child and by whether the code was newly issued or had been eligible in a previous term.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated
- Release
- March 2025
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Codes issued
- Codes validated
- Percentage of codes validated
- Filters
- Age
- User Type
- Time period
- 2025
Data set preview
| geographic_level | time_period | time_identifier | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | la_code | la_name | old_la_code | age | user_type | codes_issued | codes_validated | percentage_validated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 2025 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 1YO | Existing | 181990 | 170409 | 93.64 | |||||
| National | 2025 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 1YO | New | 43925 | 34766 | 79.15 | |||||
| National | 2025 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 2YO | Existing | 66557 | 63315 | 95.13 | |||||
| National | 2025 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 2YO | New | 213479 | 198312 | 92.9 | |||||
| National | 2025 | Reporting year | E92000001 | England | 9 - 12 Month | New | 36081 | 31763 | 88.03 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| age | Age |
| codes_issued | Codes issued |
| codes_validated | Codes validated |
| percentage_validated | Percentage of codes validated |
| user_type | User Type |
Footnotes
- Eligibility Checking Service data was aggregated to local authorities using the child's postcode, and the ONS November 2024 postcode directory. This means that codes validated will not align with the total aggregated using the provider postcode, which is relevant to funding. This also means that validation rates can only be between 0% and 100%.
- Small drops in the validation rate can occur as the number of codes issued can exceed validations by more than the validation rate, but this won't happen for long into the term. This trajectory of validation rates is consistent with other terms and with data on three and four-year-olds.
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