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Headline statistics including children registered for and providers and staff delivering entitlements, by entitlement type.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Funded early education and childcare
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 195
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of registered children
- Estimated number of eligible children
- Estimated percentage of eligible children registered
- Estimated number of all children
- Estimated percentage of all children registered
- Number of registered children: reception
- Estimated number of eligible children: legacy benefit
- Estimated number of eligible children: universal credit
- Number of providers
- Number of state-funded schools
- Number of private and voluntary providers
- Number of independent schools
- Number of local authority day nurseries
- Number of childminders
- Number of state-funded governor run providers
- Number of other private, voluntary and independent providers
- Numbers of staff
- Filters
- Age
- Time period
- 2011 to 2025
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | entitlement_type | age | registered_children_count | registered_children_reception_count | eligible_children_count | eligible_children_universal_credit_count | eligible_children_legacy_benefit_count | registered_eligible_children_rate | all_children_count | registered_all_children_rate | providers_count | state_funded_schools_count | private_and_voluntary_providers_count | independent_schools_count | local_authority_day_nurseries_count | childminders_count | state_funded_governor_run_count | other_pvis_count | staff_count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 1717085 | x | z | z | z | z | 2552250 | 67.27730434 | 55020 | 16757 | 17792 | 785 | 278 | 18546 | 840 | 22 | 272491 |
| 2025 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Working parents | Total | 845741 | x | 1055000 | z | z | 80 | 2552250 | 33.13707513 | 44827 | 7366 | 17572 | 538 | 262 | 18267 | 803 | 19 | x |
| 2025 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Working parents | 9 to 11 months old | 29155 | x | 69000 | z | z | 42 | 142099 | 20.51738577 | 12424 | 32 | 8045 | 73 | 91 | 4158 | 25 | 0 | x |
| 2025 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Working parents | 1-year-olds | 195104 | x | 279000 | z | z | 70 | 574165 | 33.980476 | 26239 | 106 | 11685 | 113 | 148 | 14130 | 53 | 4 | x |
| 2025 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Working parents | 2-year-olds | 242453 | x | 289000 | z | z | 84 | 595225 | 40.73300013 | 32434 | 1338 | 16715 | 327 | 207 | 13426 | 407 | 14 | x |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| age | Age |
| all_children_count | Estimated number of all children |
| childminders_count | Number of childminders |
| eligible_children_count | Estimated number of eligible children |
| eligible_children_legacy_benefit_count | Estimated number of eligible children: legacy benefit |
| eligible_children_universal_credit_count | Estimated number of eligible children: universal credit |
| independent_schools_count | Number of independent schools |
| local_authority_day_nurseries_count | Number of local authority day nurseries |
| other_pvis_count | Number of other private, voluntary and independent providers |
| private_and_voluntary_providers_count | Number of private and voluntary providers |
| providers_count | Number of providers |
| registered_all_children_rate | Estimated percentage of all children registered |
| registered_children_count | Number of registered children |
| registered_children_reception_count | Number of registered children: reception |
| registered_eligible_children_rate | Estimated percentage of eligible children registered |
| staff_count | Numbers of staff |
| state_funded_governor_run_count | Number of state-funded governor run providers |
| state_funded_schools_count | Number of state-funded schools |
Footnotes
- Children attending a general hospital school and a small number of children attending a special school do not follow the national curriculum. These children are included in totals but not breakdowns by year group.
- Where children under 4 years of age are recorded as in reception, this may be because they attend a school with a mixed-year class, because the local authority has agreed it would be beneficial to start reception year early, or for another reason.
- A very small number of children under 5 years of age are registered in a higher year group than reception. This may be because the local authority has agreed it would be beneficial for the child, or for another reason. These children have been included in the reception category.
- Since 2019, data cleaning exercises with local authorities each year have improved data quality. Provider types have become more accurately recorded over the years and caution should therefore be taken when comparing changes in provider types between years, particularly for childminders and state-funded governor run provision, which has been reclassified from other in some instances.
- State-funded governor-run provision is included in the private, voluntary and independent providers category because data for these providers is returned on the early years census.
- Data collected in 2021 (and to a lesser extent 2022) was affected by the impact of COVID-19 uncertainty on providers and parents. Further information is available on the methodology page.
- Local authority day nurseries are included in the private, voluntary and independent providers category because data for these providers is returned on the early years census.
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Early Years Statistics Team
Email: earlyyears.statistics@education.gov.ukContact name: Jay Morris