Spring 2025 time series
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A monthly time series of codes issued, validated, and percentage - from the start of the offer (January 2024) to the last month.
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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 for 9 months to two-year-olds (Spring term)
- Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Spring term)
- Percentage of codes validated (Spring term)
- Filters
- User
- Time period
- 2024 January to 2025 February
Data set preview
| geographic_level | time_period | time_identifier | country_code | country_name | time_identifier | age | user_type | new_la_code | la_name | old_la_code | region_name | region_code | codes_issued | codes_validated | percentage_validated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 2024 | January | E92000001 | England | Reporting year | Total | Existing | 23722 | 1737 | 7.32 | |||||
| National | 2024 | January | E92000001 | England | Reporting year | Total | New | 5971 | 76 | 1.27 | |||||
| National | 2024 | February | E92000001 | England | Reporting year | Total | Existing | 47974 | 11709 | 24.41 | |||||
| National | 2024 | February | E92000001 | England | Reporting year | Total | New | 16071 | 364 | 2.26 | |||||
| National | 2024 | March | E92000001 | England | Reporting year | Total | Existing | 56869 | 37118 | 65.27 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| codes_issued | Codes issued for 9 months to two-year-olds (Spring term) |
| codes_validated | Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Spring term) |
| percentage_validated | Percentage of codes validated (Spring term) |
| user_type | User |
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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