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.
- Release type
- Produced by
- Department for Education
- Published
- Last updated
Get help by contacting 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
Press office
If you have a media enquiry:
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Public enquiries
If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:
Phone: 0370 000 2288
Opening times
Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)
Accredited official statistics
These accredited official statistics have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (opens in new tab) (OSR). They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab). Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (opens in new tab).
Accreditation signifies their compliance with the authority's Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) which broadly means these statistics are:
- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Minister for Early Education
- Minister for Skills
- Special Adviser, Policy
- Special Adviser, Policy, Speeches, and Political Engagements
- Special Adviser, Communications
- Special Adviser, Parliamentary, Social Media, and Regional/Trade Press Communications
- Special Adviser, Women and Equalities Policy
- Permanent Secretary
- Director General, Families
- Director General, Strategy
- Director (2), Early Years, Childcare, Families and Analysis
- Deputy Director, Early Years Sufficiency and Entitlements
- Grade 7, Two-Year-Old Entitlement Team
- Higher Executive Officer, Two-Year-Old Entitlement Team
- Higher Executive Officer, Early Years Disadvantage and Entitlements Team
- Senior Executive Officer, Two-Year-Old Entitlement Team
- Senior Executive Officer, Early Years Pupil Premium
- Grade 6, Early Years Local Authority Unit
- Local authority regional lead, Early Years Local Authority Unit
- Senior Executive Officer, Early Years Stakeholders
- Grade 6, Early Years Funding
- Deputy Director, Early Years Quality and Workforce
- Grade 6, Early Years Safeguarding, Wellbeing and SEND
- Senior Executive Officer, Early Years SEND
- Deputy Director, Early Years Markets, Strategy and Workforce
- Grade 6, Early Years Recruitment and Retention
- Grade 6, Early Years Qualifications
- Grade 6, Project Management Office
- Grade 6, Workforce Sufficiency and Places
- Chief Analyst and Director, SARDIS and Strategic Data Transformation
- Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
- Deputy Director, Families Analysis
- Team Leader, Early Years Workforce Analysis
- Economist, Early Years Entitlements and Delivery Analysis
- Head of News, News and Social Media
- Chief Media Officer
- Senior Media Officer
- Media Officer