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Table 5 - Weekly attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak at local authority level
Local authority
This file contains local authority responses to the early years local authority survey from Monday 4 April 2020 to Thursday 27 May 2021. Values of less than 5 for the Total Children in Early Years Settings and Total Vulnerable Children in Early Years Settings have been suppressed and have been replaced with a “c”. Some responses from local authorities during this time period have been removed where the Department for Education has been notified of a mistaken entry, or where the department believes a mistaken entry has been given based on high level validation checks. Additionally, where a local authority has submitted multiple responses on the same day only the most recent response on that date has been retained. The data covers England only. Data is in this file has been not been scaled to account for non-response so it is not nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 8,771
- Indicators
- Count of Closed Early Years Settings
- Count of Open Early Years Settings
- Total Children in Early Years Settings
- Filters
- Date
- Time period
- 2020 Week 15 to 2021 Week 9
Table 1C - Attendance in state-funded schools during the COVID-19 outbreak at local authority
Local authority, Regional
This file contains weekly attendance data at local authority level for state-funded education settings for each Thursday in the autumn term (from 10 September until 17 December 2020) for the spring term (13 January until 1 April 2021) and the summer term (15 April until 15 July). It also includes workforce absence statistics in the autumn term (from 10 September until 17 December 2020), the spring term (13 January until 1 April 2021) , the summer term (15 April until 15 July) and the first half of the Autumn term (7 September 2021 until 22 October 2021). The data is shown for each local authority and is further split by the following school phases: - state-funded secondary schools - state-funded primary schools - state-funded special schools - all state-funded schools. Data is in this file has been not been scaled to account for non-response so it is not nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 29,510
- Indicators
- Attendance in fully open schools (%)
- Attendance in schools (%)
- Attendance in schools (%): adjusted to exclude y11-13 not in attendance
- Filters
- Date
- Phase of education
- Time period
- 2020 Week 37 to 2021 Week 9
Table 1E - Daily workforce absence in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (Spring lockdown - 11 January to 5 March 2021)
National
This file contains workforce absence statistics for education settings during restricted opening from 11 January to 5 March 2021, excluding half term dates from 15 - 19 February 2021. Data is not comparable to workforce absence estimates collected in the autumn term. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 176
- Indicators
- Number of teachers and school leaders attending on site in open schools
- Number of teachers and school leaders in open schools self isolating and cannot teach remotely due to potential contact with a case of COVID19 inside the school
- Number of teachers and school leaders in open schools self isolating and cannot teach remotely due to potential contact with a case of COVID19 outside the school
- Filters
- Date
- Phase of education
- Time period
- 2021 Week 2 to 2021 Week 9
Table 4 - Daily attendance in responding education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak not nationally representative Pre17 July
National
This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March - 17th July inclusive. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 36
- Indicators
- Open responding settings (not nationally representative)
- Proportion of responding settings open (not nationally representative)
- Proportion of settings usually accepting these year groups open to nursery reception year 1 or year 6 (not nationally representative)
- Filters
- Date
- Time period
- 2020 Week 23 to 2020 Week 29
Table 3 - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak Pre17 July
National
This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March - 17th July inclusive. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 86
- Indicators
- Children attending
- Children attending nursery
- Children attending reception
- Filters
- Date
- Time period
- 2020 Week 13 to 2020 Week 29
Table 1A - Daily attendance in education during the COVID-19 outbreak in holiday periods (not comparable to other time periods)
National
This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term and Easter dates. Half term includes 19th October - 23rd October 2020, 2nd November 2020, and 15 February - 19 February 2021. Easter dates include 29 March 2021 - 19 April 2021. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative. Further details on the column headings can be found in the“Table 1b variable additions and removal log” ancillary file.
- Number of rows
- 101
- Indicators
- Number of open settings, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
- Number of settings responded, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
- Number of settings with one or more students self-isolating due to contact with a case of coronavirus in the setting, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
- Filters
- Date
- Setting type or phase
- Time period
- 2020 Week 43 to 2021 Week 44
Table 1D - Daily workforce absence in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (12 October to 17 December, 8 March to 22 April)
National
This file contains workforce absence statistics for education settings from 12 October 2020 to 17 December 2020 and again following wider reopening of schools, from 8 March 2021 to 16 September 2021. It excludes half term terms (19th October - 23rd October, and 2nd November 2020), the national lockdown during the spring term (4 January to 5 March 2021), Easter data (29 March - 19 April 2021) and summer holiday (17 July 2021 - 6 September 2021). Data for workforce during the restricted opening of schools can be found in table 1e. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 1,068
- Indicators
- Number of teachers and school leaders absent for other reasons
- Number of teachers and school leaders absent with a confirmed case of covid-19
- Number of teachers and school leaders absent with a suspected case of covid-19
- Filters
- Date
- Phase of education
- Time period
- 2020 Week 42 to 2021 Week 45
Table 1B - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes schools holiday dates)
National
This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates affected by October half term and Easter break only. Settings on half term or Easter break are excluded from these figures. For this reason, data within this file is not comparable to data within table 1b. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative of settings that were not on half term or Easter break
- Number of rows
- 1,004
- Indicators
- number of children of critical workers attending
- number of fully open settings
- number of open settings including inset
- Filters
- date
- phase
- Time period
- 2020 Week 37 to 2021 Week 9
Table 2 - Daily attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak
National
The data in this file contains weekly attendance data for early years settings. Data in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.
- Number of rows
- 69
- Indicators
- Children of critical workers attending early years settings
- Number of children attending early years settings
- Number of closed early years settings
- Filters
- Date
- Time period
- 2020 Week 16 to 2021 Week 9