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

4 Children registered by ethnicity and SEN provision

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Published 6 July 2023

Last updated 6 July 2023

Number of children registered for government-funded early years provision by age, year group, ethnicity and SEN provision.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Education provision: children under 5 years of age
• Release: Reporting year 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of registered children
  • Percentage of registered children
• Filters:
  • Entitlement type and year group
  • Age
  • Major ethnic group
• Time period: 2018 to 2023

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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	year_group	age	ethnicity_major	sen	sen_provision	number_children	percentage_children
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total	1320242	100
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	No identified SEN	Total	1218584	92.3
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	SEN	Total	101658	7.7
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	SEN	SEN support	85423	6.5
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	SEN	EHC plan	16235	1.2

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
ethnicity_major	Major ethnic group - Cross-tabulations with SEN available at national level only
number_children	Number of registered children
percentage_children	Percentage of registered children
sen_provision	Special educational needs (SEN) provision - Cross-tabulations with ethnicity available at national level only

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Footnotes

1. Children attending a general hospital school and a small number of children attending a special school do not follow the national curriculum. These children are included in totals but not breakdowns by year group.
2. A very small number of children under 5 years of age are registered in a higher year group than reception. This may be because the local authority has agreed it would be beneficial to the child, or for another reason. These children have been included in the reception category.
3. The 'Unknown' category describes cases where the child's ethnicity was refused or not obtained. These children are included in the 'Total' numbers.
4. No data on ethnicity or SEN provision is available for children registered at general hospital schools.
5. Data collected in 2021 (and to a lesser extent 2022) was affected by the impact of COVID-19 uncertainty on providers and parents. Further information is available in the methodology note.
6. In some years, data for a small number of local authorities is of low reliability due to error. See methodology for more details.

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