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Reported COVID-19 notifications by registered early years and childcare settings

Data on the number of registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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From:
Ofsted
Published:
30 October 2020
Last updated:
12 April 2022
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  1. Data updated to include the remaining notifications received up until 21 February 2022. All data has been republished to account for a change in methodology for aggregating the data. The date of notification now refers to the date when a confirmed case was reported to Ofsted, rather than the date Ofsted processed the notification. Previously, the data also included broader information relating to COVID-19. The updated reporting now only reports on notifications of confirmed cases of COVID-19. The local authority data up to 30 September 2021 has also been updated in line with this methodology change.

  2. Updated the page to confirm that from 21 February registered providers no longer have to notify us of COVID-19 cases. We will continue to publish data for notifications that we have already received. Also added data for weeks beginning 24 and 31 January.

  3. Added data for weeks beginning 10 and 17 January.

  4. Added data for weeks beginning 27 December and 3 January.

  5. Added data for weeks beginning 13 and 20 December.

  6. Added data for weeks beginning 29 November and 6 December.

  7. Added data for weeks beginning 15 and 22 November.

  8. Added data for weeks beginning 1 and 8 November.

  9. Published an additional one-off dataset that provides a breakdown of the number of notifications by region and local authority for each quarter between 1 July 2020 and 30 September 2021.

  10. Added data for weeks beginning 18 and 25 October.

  11. Added data for weeks beginning 4 and 11 October.

  12. Added data for weeks beginning 20 and 27 September.

  13. Added data for weeks beginning 6 and 13 September.

  14. Added data for weeks beginning 23 and 30 August.

  15. Added data for weeks beginning 9 and 16 August.

  16. Added data for weeks beginning 26 July and 2 August.

  17. Added data for weeks beginning 12 and 19 July.

  18. Added data for weeks beginning 28 June and 5 July.

  19. Added data for weeks beginning 14 and 21 June.

  20. Added data for weeks beginning 31 May and 7 June.

  21. Added data for weeks beginning 17 and 24 May.

  22. Added data for weeks beginning 3 and 10 May.

  23. Added data for weeks beginning 19 and 26 April.

  24. Added data for weeks beginning 5 and 12 April.

  25. Added data for weeks beginning 22 March and 29 March 2021.

  26. Added data for weeks beginning 8 March and 15 March 2021.

  27. Added data for weeks beginning 22 February and 1 March 2021.

  28. Added data for weeks beginning 8 and 15 February 2021.

  29. Added data for weeks beginning 25 January and 1 February 2021.

  30. Added data for weeks beginning 11 and 18 January 2021.

  31. Updated the number of cases for the week beginning 21 December as this was incomplete due to closures over the Christmas period. Also added data for weeks beginning 28 December 2021 and 4 January 2021.

  32. Added data for weeks beginning 14 and 21 December 2020.

  33. Added data for weeks beginning 30 November and 7 December 2020.

  34. Added data from 16 and 23 November 2020.

  35. Added data from 2 to 9 November 2020.

  36. Added data to cover 19 October to 1 November 2020.

  37. Updated the figures for the weeks commencing 5/10/2020 and 12/10/2020 to correct an error in the number of reported cases.

  38. First published.

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Details

On 21 February 2022, the Department for Education announced that registered providers are no longer required to notify Ofsted of any COVID-19 cases in their setting, whether in children or staff members.

On 12 April 2022 Ofsted republished the time series of reported COVID-19 notifications as a complete data set. This data now represents the number of notifications Ofsted received each week instead of the number of notifications Ofsted processed. Further to this, we only report on notifications of a confirmed case of COVID-19. Previously, the data also included broader information relating to COVID-19. This has resulted in updated figures for several weeks.

About the data

This page includes:

  • data published fortnightly between June 2020 and February 2022 on the number of notifications from registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19 by week
  • a one-off dataset that breaks down the number of notifications by region and local authority for each quarter between 1 July 2020 and 30 September 2021

Early years and childcare providers must notify Ofsted of any serious illness or accident to a child in their care. Before 21 February 2022, this requirement included telling us about confirmed cases of COVID-19 in registered early years settings.

Providers must notify Ofsted as soon as reasonably practical, and in any case within 14 days of the incident occurring. Notifications received in one week could represent confirmed cases which occurred during the 2 previous weeks.

If there were multiple reported cases at a setting at one time, a notification could have included more than one confirmed case. This means that the number of notifications received does not necessarily correlate with the number of confirmed cases in a setting.

The data is accurate at the time of publication and may be updated at a later date if we receive delayed information.

You can find numbers of childcare providers in Ofsted’s early years and childcare providers official statistics.

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