April 2024

Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated

Data guidance

Published 22 April 2024

Description

This data reports management information from DfE's Eligibility Checking Service.

Coverage

We are publishing cumulative numbers of two-year-old children applying for the April 2024 term.

File formats and conventions

Three variables are reported - Codes Issued, Codes Validated, and the percentage of issued codes which have been validated. 

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.

Issued and validated code totals nationally as at 17th April

• Filename: 18042024_national_data.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2024
• Content:

  This file report total counts of codes issued and validated for two-year-olds by 17th April 2024.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
codes_issued	Codes issued for two-year-olds
codes_validated	Codes validated for two-year-olds
percentage_validated	Percentage of codes validated

Footnotes

1. Whilst care has been taken to remove duplicates from the data, as described in the methodology section, there may be unique cases where more than one code may exist for one child.