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Official Statistics

Local authority breakdown: May 2018

Updated 25 April 2019
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Local authority Eligibility codes issued Codes validated (number) Codes validated (%)
ENGLAND 377,535 346,868 92
NORTH EAST 17,153 16,142 94
Darlington 866 778 90
Durham 3,614 3,216 89
Gateshead 1,539 1,498 97
Hartlepool 453 404 89
Middlesbrough 669 610 91
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,768 1,737 98
North Tyneside 1,664 1,606 97
Northumberland 2,067 1,996 97
Redcar and Cleveland 645 559 87
South Tyneside 886 828 93
Stockton-on-Tees 1,297 1,260 97
Sunderland 1,685 1,650 98
NORTH WEST 58,498 55,491 95
Blackburn with Darwen 1,004 928 92
Blackpool 1,062 897 84
Bolton 2,341 2,306 99
Bury 1,777 1,614 91
Cheshire East 3,213 3,222 100
Cheshire West and Chester 3,086 2,989 97
Cumbria 4,030 3,946 98
Halton 1,092 958 88
Knowsley 1,234 1,152 93
Lancashire 10,397 10,143 98
Liverpool 3,154 2,947 93
Manchester 2,528 2,075 82
Oldham 1,641 1,520 93
Rochdale 1,781 1,677 94
Salford 1,525 1,475 97
Sefton 2,228 2,116 95
St. Helens 1,475 1,383 94
Stockport 2,937 2,733 93
Tameside 1,896 1,743 92
Trafford 2,377 2,427 102
Warrington 2,065 2,101 102
Wigan 2,996 2,637 88
Wirral 2,659 2,502 94
YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER 38,475 35,884 93
Barnsley 1,572 1,423 91
Bradford 3,483 3,290 94
Calderdale 1,700 1,685 99
Doncaster 1,941 1,762 91
East Riding of Yorkshire 2,561 2,463 96
Kingston Upon Hull, City of 1,688 1,536 91
Kirklees 3,240 2,951 91
Leeds 5,996 5,365 89
North East Lincolnshire 941 896 95
North Lincolnshire 1,059 1,024 97
North Yorkshire 4,738 4,343 92
Rotherham 1,821 1,683 92
Sheffield 3,644 3,577 98
Wakefield 2,334 2,209 95
York 1,757 1,677 95
EAST MIDLANDS 35,539 32,556 92
Derby 1,799 1,726 96
Derbyshire 5,742 5,007 87
Leicester 1,728 1,569 91
Leicestershire 5,914 5,378 91
Lincolnshire 5,409 4,715 87
Northamptonshire 6,314 5,811 92
Nottingham 1,725 1,511 88
Nottinghamshire 6,586 6,499 99
Rutland 322 340 106
WEST MIDLANDS 39,483 36,799 93
Birmingham 6,262 5,721 91
Coventry 2,118 1,936 91
Dudley 1,843 1,551 84
Herefordshire 1,312 1,182 90
Sandwell 1,669 1,542 92
Shropshire 2,319 2,235 96
Solihull 1,706 1,776 104
Staffordshire 7,043 7,075 100
Stoke-on-Trent 1,916 1,658 87
Telford and Wrekin 1,355 1,201 89
Walsall 1,565 1,263 81
Warwickshire 4,380 4,022 92
Wolverhampton 1,242 983 79
Worcestershire 4,753 4,654 98
EAST OF ENGLAND 40,351 36,661 91
Bedford Borough 1,291 1,221 95
Cambridgeshire 4,663 4,546 97
Central Bedfordshire 2,363 1,975 84
Essex 8,798 8,163 93
Hertfordshire 8,839 8,212 93
Luton 1,182 1,043 88
Norfolk 4,840 4,275 88
Peterborough 1,644 1,469 89
Southend-on-Sea 1,068 919 86
Suffolk 4,469 3,890 87
Thurrock 1,194 948 79
LONDON 44,555 37,584 84
INNER LONDON 14,582 12,517 86
Camden 611 632 103
City of London 16 20 125
Hackney 1,647 1,623 99
Hammersmith and Fulham 429 - N/A
Haringey 1,447 1,261 87
Islington 961 755 79
Kensington and Chelsea 209 - N/A
Lambeth 1,715 1,431 83
Lewisham 2,123 1,805 85
Newham 1,396 1,265 91
Southwark 1,547 1,191 77
Tower Hamlets 926 800 86
Wandsworth 1,239 1,044 84
Westminster 316 690 N/A
OUTER LONDON 29,973 25,067 84
Barking and Dagenham 1,216 611 50
Barnet 2,223 1,949 88
Bexley 1,551 1,294 83
Brent 1,474 1,252 85
Bromley 2,178 2,005 92
Croydon 2,395 2,104 88
Ealing 1,511 1,146 76
Enfield 1,819 1,432 79
Greenwich 1,635 1,584 97
Harrow 1,265 1,047 83
Havering 1,850 1,642 89
Hillingdon 1,687 1,385 82
Hounslow 1,351 1,171 87
Kingston upon Thames 1,028 1,701 N/A
Merton 1,144 943 82
Redbridge 1,563 1,506 96
Richmond upon Thames 886 2 N/A
Sutton 1,350 1,145 85
Waltham Forest 1,847 1,148 62
SOUTH EAST 61,564 56,293 91
Bracknell Forest 1,088 925 85
Brighton and Hove 1,878 1,787 95
Buckinghamshire 3,632 3,409 94
East Sussex 2,973 2,735 92
Hampshire 10,968 10,340 94
Isle of Wight 864 817 95
Kent 9,430 8,889 94
Medway 1,736 1,500 86
Milton Keynes 2,151 1,817 84
Oxfordshire 4,743 4,457 94
Portsmouth 1,568 1,633 104
Reading 1,130 1,117 99
Slough 1,012 875 86
Southampton 1,724 1,596 93
Surrey 7,317 6,052 83
West Berkshire 1,202 1,168 97
West Sussex 6,128 5,391 88
Windsor and Maidenhead 856 745 87
Wokingham 1,164 1,040 89
SOUTH WEST 41,650 39,458 95
Bath and North East Somerset 1,292 1,316 102
Bournemouth 1,445 1,417 98
Bristol, City of 3,530 3,279 93
Cornwall 3,932 3,796 97
Devon 5,385 5,180 96
Dorset 2,741 2,586 94
Gloucestershire 4,639 4,355 94
Isles of Scilly 24 23 96
North Somerset 1,737 1,247 72
Plymouth 2,003 1,859 93
Poole 1,273 1,238 97
Somerset 4,301 4,119 96
South Gloucestershire 2,586 2,547 98
Swindon 1,709 1,528 89
Torbay 991 961 97
Wiltshire 4,062 4,007 99
Source: Eligibility checking system Not set Not set Not set
Notes Not set Not set Not set
Codes issued and validated are as of 7th May 2018. Not set Not set Not set
The table exclude 4,097 codes issued and 1,866 codes validated for children aged 4 at 31st August who did not turn 5 before the 31st March as it is likely these children will have taken up a reception place and therefore are ineligible for 30 hours free childcare. However, some of these children may defer their entry into reception and will continue to be eligible for 30 hours free childcare. Not set Not set Not set
Codes issued relate to the local authority where the parent is resident. Codes validated relate to the local authority where the code was checked. These are not always the same, therefore it is possible for the number of codes validated to exceed the number issued. Not set Not set Not set
There were 267 codes issued to parents where the local authority was unknown. These are included in the national figure. Not set Not set Not set
Code checks for Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea are made by Westminster Not set Not set Not set
Code checks for Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon Thames are made by the same third party organisation (Achieving for Children) and therefore checks for both local authorities may be recorded as in either local authority Not set Not set Not set