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 (6)
Permanent Secretary
Director General, Families
Director General, Digital and Infrastructure
Director, Early Years, Childcare, Families and Analysis (2)
Deputy Director, Early Years Entitlements and Markets
Grade 6, Entitlements Delivery (2)
Grade 7, Entitlements Delivery
Senior Executive Officer, Entitlements Delivery
Higher Executive Officer, Entitlements Delivery
Grade 7, Early Years Markets Oversight and Transparency
Grade 6, Childcare Funding Reform
Senior Executive Officer, Childcare Markets and Reform
Deputy Director, Childcare Funding and Market Reform
Grade 7, Disadvantage and SEND Funding
Grade 6, Market Reform and Funding
Senior Executive Officer, Early Years Stakeholders
Grade 6, Early Years Funding
Deputy Director, Early Years Workforce and Practice
Grade 6, Safeguarding, Health and Qualifications
Grade 6, Market Oversight and Regulation
Grade 7, Early Years SEN Strategy
Deputy Director, Best Start in Life Family Hubs
Senior Executive Officer, Best Start in Life Family Hubs and SEND Policy
Grade 6, Best Start in Life Insights
Chief Analyst and Director, SARDIS and Strategic Data Transformation
Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
Deputy Director, Families Analysis
Grade 6, Early Start Analysis and Research
Grade 6, Childcare Analysis Research
Grade 7, Early Years Entitlements Analysis
Senior Operational Researcher, Early Years Entitlements Analysis
Grade 7, Schools and Pupils Statistics
Deputy Director, Media Office
Assistant Director, Media Office
Chief Media Officer
Senior Media Officer
Media Officer
Head of Social Media Content
Social Media Officer

Date updated	Summary of update
29 July 2026	Ingesting data into EES API
2 July 2026	First published

Updates to Reporting year 2026Funded early education and childcare

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