January 2024

Early years education recovery

Number of practitioners and settings that have registered for, and completed, strands of the early years education recovery (EYER) programme.

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

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. 

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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.

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If you have a specific enquiry about Early years education recovery statistics and data:

Early Years Outcomes and Interventions Research

Email: EYERProject.MAILBOX@EDUCATION.GOV.UK
Contact name: Antony Brown

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If you have a media enquiry:

Telephone: 020 7783 8300

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If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:

Phone: 0370 000 2288

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Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)

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