Children registered and take-up rates

Children registered by year group and provider type

Disadvantaged children registered by basis for funding

Children registered for the 15-hour entitlement by ethnicity and SEN provision

Private, voluntary and independent providers

Percentage of staff at private, voluntary and independent providers by highest qualification

Number and percentage of eligible children registered for and number of providers delivering government-funded early years provision, by age and entitlement type. National timeseries back to 2015 for the 15-hour entitlement for 2-year-olds, 2011 for the 15-hour entitlement for 3 and 4-year-olds, and 2018 for the 30-hour entitlement for 3 and 4-year-olds.

Headline figures

Number and percentage of eligible children registered for government-funded early years provision by age.

1 Children registered and take-up rates

Number of children registered for and number of providers delivering government-funded early years provision by age, year group, and provider type.

2 Children registered and providers by provider type

Number of disadvantaged children registered for government-funded early years provision, by age, disadvantage type and basis for funding.

3 Children registered by disadvantaged status

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

4 Children registered by ethnicity and SEN provision

Number of children registered for government-funded early years provision by age, year group and provider's Ofsted inspection judgement.

5 Children registered by Ofsted judgement at provider

The proportion of registrations for government-funded early years provision by age, provider type, and number of funded hours per week. 

Unlike for the other data files, a child who has multiple registrations across different providers is counted for each separate registration, as opposed to only at the provider where they spend the majority of their time.

6 Registrations by hours per week

Number of private, voluntary and independent providers delivering any amount of government-funded early years provision by age and provider type.

7 All PVI providers

Number of staff delivering government-funded early years provision at private, voluntary, and independent providers, by highest qualification and provider type.

8 PVI staff by highest qualification

Number of private, voluntary, and independent providers delivering government-funded early years provision with at least one accredited graduate staff member, and number of children registered at these providers, by entitlement and provider type (national only).

9 PVI providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member

Number of children registered for government-funded early years provision by age and provider type. Underlying data for Figure 7 in the statistical commentary.

Commentary - Children registered by age and provider type

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

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