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- Publication
- Education provision: children under 5 years of age
Step 2 Select a data set or featured table
- Data set
- Number of Children Registered by Age and Provider Type (2018 to 2021)
Step 3 Choose locations
- National
- England
Step 4 Choose time period
- Time period
- 2018 to 2021
Step 5 Choose your filters
- Indicators
- Number of three and four year olds registered
- Type of entitlement: funded or extended
- Funded entitlement
- Type of provider
- All providers
- Childminders
- Independent schools
- Maintained nursery and state-funded primary schools
- Private and voluntary providers
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This data is not from the latest releaseView latest data: Reporting year 2023Number of three and four year olds registered for 'Number of Children Registered by Age and Provider Type (2018 to 2021)' for All providers, Childminders, Funded entitlement, Independent schools, Maintained nursery and state-funded primary schools and 3 other filters in England between 2018 and 2021 2018 2019 2020 2021 All providers 1,284,632 1,277,137 1,271,544 1,211,991 Private and voluntary providers 508,436 507,936 507,768 475,942 Childminders 18,188 20,347 21,680 22,893 Maintained nursery and state-funded primary schools 718,170 708,987 703,870 676,645 Independent schools 26,142 26,700 25,533 24,775 Special schools 4,112 4,016 4,133 3,863 State-funded secondary schools 9,584 9,151 8,560 7,873 Footnotes
- “Maintained Nursery and State-funded primary schools" are a combination of the "Infant classes in primary schools", "Nursery classes in primary schools" and "Nursery schools" sub-groups.
- Children who split their entitlement across more than one Private, Voluntary or Independent provider are only counted at the provider where they spend the majority of their time.
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- Publication: Education provision: children under 5 years of age, Reporting year 2023
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