Research and statistics

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

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

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

• Main findings: childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2023 

  This is the main findings report for the childcare providers and…

• Methodology: childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2023

  Introduction This page contains methodology and quality information about…

• Pre-release access list: childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2023

  The phrase ‘pre-release access’ refers to the practice whereby official…

Commentaries on early years inspection data.

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

• A focus on childminders

  Childminders look after children for payment or reward, in a domestic…

• A focus on inadequate early years providers

  This commentary draws on management information for early years and…

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2022.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2021/22 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 3 March 2023

A briefing on the continued impact of the pandemic and education recovery, drawing on evidence from summer 2022 inspections.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted: education recovery series
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 20 July 2022

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2022.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 29 June 2022

A briefing on the continued impact of the pandemic and education recovery, drawing on evidence from spring 2022 inspections.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted: education recovery series
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 4 April 2022

A briefing on the continued impact of the pandemic and education recovery, drawing on evidence from inspections that Ofsted carried out in autumn 2021.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted: education recovery series
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 16 December 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2021.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2020/21 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 30 November 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes and movement in the childcare sector as at 31 March 2016.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes and movement in the childcare sector as at 31 August 2016.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2015/16 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes and movement in the childcare sector as at 31 December 2016.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2017.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 December 2017.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2018.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2018.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2017/18 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

All inspections and providers at 31 December 2018.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2019.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2019.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2018/19 and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2020.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Early years and childcare statistics and 1 others
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 August 2021