September 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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• Produced by: Department for Education
• Published: 24 September 2025
• Last updated: 23 January 2026

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• LA Validation Rates Autumn 2025

  LA Map Validation Rates Autumn 2025 - see publication for map

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• LA Validation Rates Summer 2025

  LA Map Validation Rates Summer 2025 - see publication for map

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• Percentage of codes validated nationally over time for Summer term

  Time series from Jan 2024 to August 2025, showing how validation rates grew towards the final level, and varied between user types (previously had a code vs had a code for the first time this term).

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• Summer and Autumn headlines

  'Headline national codes issued, validated, and percentage validated by term and age of child' for Summer and Autumn terms

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• Codes issued, validated, and percentage validated nationally (all terms and ages of children)

  Headline ECS management information stats for all ages of child and all terms separately.

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• Autumn 2025 - Time Series of Validation Rates by User Type

  Monthly changes (mostly increases) in validation rate over the course of the policy, split by whether the user was new to childcare that term or had an eligible code the term before.

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• Autumn 2025 codes issued and validated

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Autumn 2025 local authority codes issued and validated

  • Number of rows: 1,791
  • Indicators:
    • Codes issued
    • Codes validated
    • Percentage of codes validated
  • Filters:
    • Age
    • User Type
  • Time period: 2025

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• Autumn 2025 local authority time series

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Autumn 2025 local authority time series

  • Number of rows: 9,722
  • Indicators:
    • Codes issued for 9 months to two-year-olds (Autumn term)
    • Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Autumn term)
    • Percentage of codes validated (Autumn term)
  • Filters:
    • User
  • Time period: 2024 January to 2025 September

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• Summer 2025 codes issued and validated

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Summer 2025 local authority codes issued and validated

  • Number of rows: 1,791
  • Indicators:
    • Codes issued
    • Codes validated
    • Percentage of codes validated
  • Filters:
    • Age
    • User Type
  • Time period: 2025

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• Summer 2025 local authority time series

  Local authority, National, Regional

  Summer 2025 local authority time series

  • Number of rows: 9,291
  • Indicators:
    • Codes issued for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term)
    • Codes validated for 9 months to two-year-olds (Summer term)
    • Percentage of codes validated (Summer term)
  • Filters:
    • User
  • Time period: 2024 January to 2025 August

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• Headline stats autumn release

  National

  Headline statistics

  • Number of rows: 8
  • Indicators:
    • Codes issued
    • Codes validated
    • Percentage of codes validated
  • Filters:
    • Age of child at start of term
  • Time period: 2024/25 Summer term to 2025/26 Autumn term

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