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Children registered for and providers and staff delivering entitlements, by entitlement type
England, 2011 to 2025
Reporting year 2025
Funded early education and childcare
Annual January statistics on children under 5 registered for government funded entitlements in England, and on providers and staff delivering them.
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- Department for Education
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Headline figures
National
Headline statistics including children registered for and providers and staff delivering entitlements, by entitlement type.
- Number of rows
- 195
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Estimated number of eligible children
- Estimated percentage of eligible children registered
- Filters
- Age
- Time period
- 2011 to 2025
1 Children registered and take-up rates
Local authority, National, Regional
Number and percentage of eligible children registered for government-funded early years provision by entitlement type and age.
- Number of rows
- 5,248
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Estimated number of eligible children
- Estimated percentage of eligible children registered
- Filters
- Entitlement type and age
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
2 Children registered and providers by provider type
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of children registered for and number of providers delivering funded early years provision by entitlement type, age, year group, & provider type. PVIs figures exclude providers where no child accessed all or the majority of their entitlement.
- Number of rows
- 209,920
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Number of providers
- Filters
- Entitlement type and age
- Year group
- Type of provider
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
3 Children registered by disadvantaged status
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of children registered for funded early years provision by entitlement type, age, year group, disadvantage type and basis for funding.
- Number of rows
- 283,392
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Filters
- Entitlement type and age
- Year group and disadvantage type
- Basis for funding
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
4 Children registered by ethnicity and SEN provision
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of children registered for funded early years provision by entitlement type, age, year group, ethnicity and SEN provision.
- Number of rows
- 734,720
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Percentage of registered children
- Filters
- Entitlement type and age
- Year group
- Major ethnic group
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
5 Children registered by Ofsted judgement at provider
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of children registered for funded early years provision by age and provider's Ofsted inspection judgement.
- Number of rows
- 11,550
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Percentage of registered children
- Filters
- Age
- Ofsted inspection judgement
- Time period
- 2025
6 All schools and PVI providers
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of providers delivering funded early years provision by entitlement type, age and provider type. PVIs figures include all providers.
- Number of rows
- 209,920
- Indicators
- Number of providers
- Filters
- Entitlement type and age
- Type of provider group
- Type of provider
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
7 PVI staff by highest qualification
National
Number of staff delivering funded early years provision at private, voluntary, and independent providers, by highest qualification and provider type.
- Number of rows
- 312
- Indicators
- Number of staff
- Percentage of staff
- Filters
- Highest level of qualification
- Type of PVI provider
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
8 PVI providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of PVIs delivering government-funded early years provision with at least one accredited graduate staff member, by provider type. PVIs figures exclude providers where no child accessed all or the majority of their entitlement.
- Number of rows
- 1,390
- Indicators
- Number of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
- Number of providers
- Percentage of providers with at least one accredited graduate staff member
- Filters
- Type of PVI provider
- Time period
- 2018 to 2025
Data guidance
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
Description
This document describes the data included in the January 2025 statistics release ‘Funded early education and childcare'.
This data is released under the terms of the Open Government Licence (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).
The methodology page should be referenced alongside this data.
Coverage
These annual January statistics report on children under 5 registered for government funded entitlements in England and on providers and staff delivering them. Specifically, the:
- universal entitlement for all 3 and 4-year-olds
- working parent entitlement for eligible children aged 9 months to 4 years (expanded from April 2024 to include eligible 2-year-olds and expanded from September 2024 to include eligible children aged 9 to 23 months)
- the families receiving additional support (FRAS) entitlement for eligible 2-year-olds (formerly known as the disadvantaged entitlement).
Data is collected from local authorities covering state-funded schools (including nurseries), via the spring school census (opens in new tab) and from private, voluntary and independent (PVI) providers (including childminders) via the early years census (opens in new tab). In addition, general hospital schools data is collected via the school-level annual school census (opens in new tab).
The underlying data files include national, regional, and local authority level information for the years 2018 to 2025 (and back to 2011 in the headline figures file).
File formats and conventions
Symbology
The following symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:
z data not applicable
x data is unavailable for unknown or other reasons
c suppressed to protect confidential information
low rounds to 0, but is not 0
Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero.
Rounding
In the headline statistics file, the numbers of children eligible for the working parent entitlement have been rounded to the nearest 1000 and the percentages of eligible children registered have been rounded to the nearest percentage. In data file 3, regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10; therefore regional numbers may not sum to national totals.
Contact us
If you have a specific enquiry about Funded early education and childcare statistics and data:
Early Years Statistics Team
Email: earlyyears.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Jay Morris
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