March 2025

Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated

Management information on eligibility codes for the extended childcare entitlement for working parents.

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Description

Codes Issued and Validated relating to the childcare expansion (staggered from April 2024 to September 2025), with termly updates. 

Coverage

All codes issued and validated nationally, regionally, and at local authority level. We also present Local Authority termly returns combined with school census data to present headcount and funding PTE figures from the midpoint of the term. 

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See methodology - data is split into the term, the child's age (at the start of the relevant term), the geography, and more recently whether the code is new for that term or had been eligible for a previous term as well (existing). 

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Early Years Analysis and Research Unit

Email: EY.AnalysisANDResearch@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Thabang Nonyane

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