Research and statistics

Research on the impact, both seen and predicted, of recent childcare reforms on providers.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 April 2024

'Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families' indicator data used to track progress in tackling disadvantages affecting families’ and children’s outcomes.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators and evidence base
• Organisation: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 17 April 2024

• Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families Indicators 2024: Data for 2005 to 2023

  What you need to know There are 9 indicators and underlying measures used…

Use Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data to explore inspection data for children’s social care, early years, further education and skills, non-association independent schools, initial teacher education providers and state-funded…

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Teacher development statistics and 5 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 22 March 2024

• Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data guidance

  This guidance gives a summary of how to use the Five-Year Ofsted…

• Equality, diversity, and inclusion statement for the Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data

  Has ‘due regard’ been made to the 3 aims of the General Duty (Section 149…

Management information aggregating registered childcare providers and inspections and their outcomes.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 30 January 2024

Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Statistics: childcare and early years
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 December 2023

Research looking at whether, on average, bigger childcare providers deliver childcare more cheaply.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 8 December 2023

Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2022 survey of childcare and early years providers.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 8 December 2023

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

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Statistics: early years foundation stage profile
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 November 2023

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2023.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 17 November 2023

Annual datasets for local authority metrics on outcomes for children at 2 to 2 and a half years as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3).

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 7 November 2023

Research on how likely childcare providers are to implement proposed changes to the early years foundation stage.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 October 2023

A report evaluating the statutory EYFS 2021 reforms, aimed at improving early years outcomes for all children.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 October 2023

Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
• Updated: 19 October 2023

A research report and data tables summarising mixed methodology research into the impact of Tax-Free Childcare on parental labour market participation.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 21 September 2023

A three-part subject-based curriculum research review focused on early years education.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted early years education research
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 8 September 2023

Commentaries on early years inspection data.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 7 September 2023

Findings from the 2022 survey of parents on childcare and early years.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Statistics: childcare and early years
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 27 July 2023

Statistics on children aged 2 to 4 registered for funded early education and childcare entitlements in England, including on staff and providers delivering them.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Statistics: childcare and early years
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 July 2023

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2023.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 29 June 2023

This Ofsted report explores the aims and purposes of early years provision in an international context.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 20 June 2023