Childcare and early years provider survey
Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.
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- Department for Education
- Published
- Last updated
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Early years and childcare research and analysis
Email: EY.AnalysisANDResearch@education.gov.ukContact name: John Canlin
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This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:
- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
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Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families
- Permanent Secretary
- Special advisers
- Director General Families Group
- Directors Early Years, Childcare Families and Analysis
- Chief Analyst
- Deputy Director Early Years Workforce and Quality
- Deputy Directors Early Years Sufficiency and Entitlements
- Heads of Early Years Markets and Sufficiency Unit
- Head Early Years Entitlements and Regulatory Framework
- Head of Funding Policy Unit
- Head of Early Years Market & Sustainability Unit
- Head of Early Years Recruitment and Retention Unit
- Team leader Early Years Workforce Strategy
- Team leader Funding Policy Unit
- Team Leaders Future Childcare
- Policy Advisor Early Years Sufficiency and Entitlements
- Senior Media Officer
- Media Officer
- Team Leader, Tax Free Childcare Policy Analysis, HMRC