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

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

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

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

Research on whether childcare providers’ businesses were being affected by rising cost pressures in November 2022.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 25 May 2023

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: 5 May 2023

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

Findings from qualitative interviews with active and former childminders in England.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2022

A summary of responses from senior leaders in local authorities to questions asked in waves 1 to 6 of the children’s services omnibus survey.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2022

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

Research into early years provider finances based on survey data from 2018.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 April 2022

Research into the early years workforce in England, with a focus on recruitment, retention and business planning.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 April 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

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: 9 December 2021