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    Children's social care
    Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics
    COVID-19
    Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
    Destination of pupils and students
    Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics
    Early years
    Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics
    Finance and funding
    Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics
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    Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics
    Higher education
    Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics
    Labour market and skills
    Including occupations in demand
    Pupils and schools
    Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics
    School and college outcomes and performance
    Including GCSE and key stage statistics
    Teachers and school workforce
    Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics
    UK education and training statistics
    Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics
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    Accredited official statistics
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    Official statistics
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    Ad hoc statistics
    Releases of statistics which are not part of DfE's regular annual official statistical release calendar.
    Management information (MI)
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    • Early years foundation stage profile results

      Annual statistics on early years foundation stage profile assessments in England relating to the 7 areas of learning and the 17 early learning goals.

      Release type
      Accredited official statistics
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • Expansion to early childcare entitlements: Childcare Experiences Survey

      Initial outputs from DfE's Childcare Experiences Survey (aka “Your Childcare”), understanding working parents' experiences of the expanded childcare entitlement

      Release type
      Management information
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • Childcare and early years survey of parents

      Nationally representative survey of parents of children aged 0-14 on their use, experiences and views on early education and childcare.

      Release type
      Official statistics
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated

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

      Release type
      Management information
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • 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
      Accredited official statistics
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • Childcare and early years provider survey

      Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.

      Release type
      Official statistics
      Published
      Theme
      Early years

    • Early years education recovery

      Number of practitioners and settings that have registered for, and completed, strands of the early years education recovery (EYER) programme.

      Release type
      Management information
      Published
      Theme
      Early years
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