January 2024

Early years education recovery

Data guidance

Published 25 January 2024

Description

The release provides Management Information (MI) on the number of practitioners and settings that have registered to take part in strands of the early years education recovery (EYER) programme in England. For the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI), the number of uses of LanguageScreen and an estimate of the number of children receiving the intervention are also included. 

The publication methodology, available on the publication report, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining the methodology used in producing the data. 

Coverage

The coverage of the data varies between the strands of the early years education recovery programme. Details on when delivery of each strand began and when data has been collected until, can be found in the methodology.

The data covers childminders, group-based settings, school-based settings and schools. Not all settings are eligible to take part in all strands. More information about each of these settings and which setting types are eligible for each strand is available in the methodology. 

File formats and conventions

No suppression has been applied to these files. The files are in .csv format.

Rounding

The estimates for the number of children that have taken part in NELI have been rounded to the nearest whole number. 

Conventions

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.

‘z’ Not applicable.

‘x’ Not available.

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Experts and mentors programme

• Filename: experts_and_mentors_jan2024_updateapril24.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2024 January
• Content:

  Number of setting registered by setting type from April 2022 to January 2024.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
setting_type	Setting Type
settings_number_registered	Number of settings registered

Footnotes

1. A pilot ran from April 2022 to July 2022 with full roll out commencing in September 2022. In April 2023 the offer was expanded to include mentoring support for childminders.
2. The figure for 'group/ school based settings' may include a small number of setting registrations multiple times due to settings requesting more than one period of support and settings deferring.

Early years child development training

• Filename: ey_child_development_training_jan2024.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2023 December
• Content:

  Number of practitioners registered by setting type from June 2022 to December 2023.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
no_of_practitioners_registered	Number of practitioners registered
setting_type	Setting Type

Footnotes

1. Training places were limited between June 2022 and October 2022 available only to practitioners invited by the department. In November 2022 training became available to all practitioners working with children aged 0-4 in early years settings.  
2. 'Other' includes central government, the Department for Education, local authority and training providers.

Level 3 special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) qualification

• Filename: ey_senco_training_jan2024.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2023 December
• Content:

  Number of settings registered by setting type from October 2022 to December 2023

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
setting_type	Setting Type
settings_number_registered	Number of settings registered

Stronger practice hubs (SPHs)

• Filename: stronger_practice_hubs_jan2024.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2023 December
• Content:

  Number of network members by setting type from November 2022 to September 2023.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
number_network_membeship	Number of settings with network membership
setting_type	Setting Type

Professional development programme (PDP)

• Filename: pdp_jan2024_updatesept24.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2022 June to 2023 December
• Content:

  Number of practitioners registered by setting type. Phase 2 took place between September 2021 and June 2022. Phase 3 took place between November 2022 and December 2023.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
no_of_practitioners_registered	Number of practitioners registered
phase	Phase
setting_type	Setting Type

Footnotes

1. 'x' indicates that data is not available by setting type for PDP2

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

• Filename: neli_202024_cumulative.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2020/21 to 2023/24
• Content:

  Total number of schools, number of LanguageScreens and estimated number of children for each academic year.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
estimate_of_children_cumulative	Cumulative total of estimated number of children
estimate_of_children_yearly	Estimated number of children
lang_screen_assessments_cumulative	Cumulative total of LanguageScreen assessments
lang_screen_assessments_yearly	Number of LanguageScreen assessments
number_of_schools_cumulative	Cumulative total of registered schools
number_of_schools_yearly	Number of registered schools

Footnotes

1. The estimate for the number of children is based on data included in EEF's Nuffield Early Language Intervention Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2. Figures given here are obtained from calculations. More information can be found in the methodology.
2. The number of LanguageScreen assessments is accurate up to the end of December 2023.
3. The estimated number of children covers the whole academic year.
4. The cumulative total of registered schools is accurate up to the end of December 2023.