July 2025

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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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 4 July 2025

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• Early years child development training

  National

  Number of practitioners registered and number of modules completed by setting type from June 2022 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 21
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners completed 1 or more modules
    • Number of practitioners completed 2 or more modules
    • Number of practitioners completed 3 or more modules
  • Filters:
    • Setting Type
  • Time period: 2023 December to 2025 March

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• Early years child development training by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of practitioners registered and number of modules completed by local authority from June 2022 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 310
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners completed 1 or more modules
    • Number of practitioners completed 2 or more modules
    • Number of practitioners completed 3 or more modules
  • Time period: 2024 June to 2025 March

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• Professional Development Programme

  National

  Number of practitioners registered and completed by setting type. Phase 2 took place between September 2021 and June 2022. Phase 3 data is from November 2022 to February 2025.

  • Number of rows: 24
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners completed
    • Number of practitioners registered
  • Filters:
    • Phase
    • Setting Type
  • Time period: 2022 July to 2025 February

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• Professional Development Programme by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of practitioners registered and completed by local authority. Phase 2 took place between September 2021 and June 2022. Phase 3 data is from November 2022 to February 2025.

  • Number of rows: 459
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners completed
    • Number of practitioners registered
    • Total number of settings in local authority
  • Filters:
    • Phase
  • Time period: 2022 July to 2025 February

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• Special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) qualification

  National

  Number of settings and practitioners that have registered for completed the the qualification by setting type from October 2022 to November 2024.

  • Number of rows: 36
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners
    • Number of settings
  • Filters:
    • Setting type
    • Status
  • Time period: 2023 December to 2024 June

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• Special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) qualification by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of settings and practitioners that have registered for completed the the qualification by local authority from October 2022 to November 2024.

  • Number of rows: 918
  • Indicators:
    • Number of practitioners
    • Number of settings
  • Filters:
    • Status
  • Time period: 2024 November to 2024 June

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• Experts and Mentors

  National

  Number of settings registered and supported by setting type. A pilot took place between April and July 2022. For Group and school based providers, data is from April 2022 until July 2024. For Childminders, the data is from April 2023 until July 2024.

  • Number of rows: 24
  • Indicators:
    • Number of settings registered
    • Number of settings supported
    • Total number of instances of support
  • Filters:
    • Setting type
    • Version
  • Time period: 2024 January to 2024 July

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• Experts and Mentors by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of settings registered and supported by local authority from April 2022 until July 2024.

  • Number of rows: 308
  • Indicators:
    • Number of settings registered
    • Number of settings supported
    • Total number of instances of support
  • Filters:
    • Version
  • Time period: 2024 July

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• Stronger practice hubs (SPHs)

  National

  Number of settings with network membership, number of settings recruited to programmes plus a range of supporting measures by setting type from November 2022 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 24
  • Indicators:
    • Number of blogs posted
    • Number of newsletters sent
    • Number of queries received
  • Filters:
    • Setting type
  • Time period: 2023 December to 2025 March

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• Stronger practice hubs (SPHs) by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of settings with network membership by local authority from November 2022 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 308
  • Indicators:
    • Number of settings with network membership
  • Time period: 2024 June to 2025 March

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• Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

  National

  Number of practitioners registered and number of courses completed in schools from September 2020 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 2
  • Indicators:
    • Completed 1 or more course
    • Completed 2 or more courses
    • Completed 3 or more courses
  • Time period: 2024 June to 2025 March

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• Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) by local authority

  Local authority

  Number of practitioners registered and number of courses completed by practitioners by local authority from September 2020 to March 2025.

  • Number of rows: 306
  • Indicators:
    • Completed 1 or more course
    • Completed 2 or more courses
    • Completed 3 or more courses
  • Time period: 2024 June to 2025 March

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• Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) additional metrics

  National

  Number of schools registered, number of LanguageScreen assessments, and estimated number of children going through the NELI programme in each academic year from 2020/21 to 2024/25.

  • Number of rows: 5
  • Indicators:
    • Cumulative total of LanguageScreen assessments
    • Cumulative total of estimated number of children going through NELI
    • Cumulative total of registered schools
  • Time period: 2020/21 to 2024/25

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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, and completed strands of, the early years education recovery (EYER) programme in England. Breakdowns are available by setting type and by local authority.

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.

Conventions

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.

‘z’ Not applicable.

‘x’ Not available.

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