Added 'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2026' official statistics.
Added 'Data on Ofsted inspections and visits: deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence' under 'Transparency data'.
Added 'The effect of school-based nurseries on childcare accessibility' under the statistical commentaries collection.
Added 'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2025'.
Added 'Early years complaints and notifications data commentary' under 'Statistical commentaries'.
'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2025' added.
Added the latest publication in our series on childcare accessibility 'How childcare could be optimised across local areas'.
'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2024' added.
Changes to access to childcare in England commentary added.
Inspection outcomes in each parliamentary constituency added.
'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2024' official statistics added.
Added official statistics for 'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2022'.
Added transparency data "Data on providers that have left the Early Years Register."
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2022.
Added link to new management information.
Added official statistics: 'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2021'.
Added a link to consultation response about proposed changes to the data we publish.
Added new transparency data on joiners and leavers in the childcare sector.
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2020.
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2019 statistics.
Added the Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2019 release to the collection.
Added childminder and home childcarer applications transparency data.
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2019 official statistics.
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2018 official statistics.
Freedom of Information (FOI) datasets: Childcare on domestic premises and childminder address information has been fully redacted. Those who have consented to publication of address details will be included in the early years transparency data. Two files which contained address details have been removed.
Added new 'transparency data' section with consented names and addresses for childminders and domestic childcare providers.
Added Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2018 official statistics.
Updated with childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2018 and early years FOI dataset as at 31 March 2018.
Updated with childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2017 and early years FOI dataset as at 31 August 2017.
Updated with 'FOI: early years dataset as at 31 August 2017'.
Early years providers who left the EYR, with full EYR inspection judgements, 1 June 2016 to 31 September 2017 published.
Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) analysis from October 2016 to March 2017 published.
Published early years and childcare inspections and outcomes information from 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2012.
Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 March 2017 published.
FOI: early years dataset as at 31 March 2017 published.
FOI: early years dataset as at 31 December 2016 published.
added childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2016 - Lorena.
Published today: childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2016 and FOI: early years dataset as at 31 August 2016.
Updated with 'FOI: early years dataset as at 31 March 2016'.
Added providers and inspections as at 31 March 2016 release.
'FOI: early years dataset as at 31 December 2015' added.
Added official statistics: childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2015.
Added management information for early years inspection outcomes to 31 October 2015.
Published today: FOI: early years dataset as at 31 August 2015
Collection updated with 'Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2015'.
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