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Annual January statistics on children under 5 registered for government funded entitlements in England, and on providers and staff delivering them.
Findings from the 2024 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
An evaluation report with the early findings on how the families first for children pathfinder programme has been implemented and delivered.
Conception counts and conception rates for women usually resident in England and Wales by age and local authority. Includes percentage of conceptions that lead to abortion.
Developing the evidence base for family hubs – how local authorities that did not have a family hub model could manage the transition to one.
The impact of early education at ages 2 to 11 on child outcomes as part of the study of early education and development (SEED).
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities.
Findings from the evaluations of the early years professional development programme.
Findings from the process evaluation of the early years stronger practice hubs programme.
Report documenting adoptive parents’ and special guardians’ reflections on making decisions about their children’s care.
These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.
This research explores Child Maintenance Service (CMS) customer perceptions of their Direct Pay arrangements and views on potential reforms to the Direct Pay service.
Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to March 2025.
This publication provides estimates of the impact of the policy change on the numbers of children in poverty.
Research about supporting local safeguarding partners to learn from serious child safeguarding incidents.
Final analysis of the eight projects set up to build on the evidence and learning from the first Challenge Fund delivered in 2019 to 2020.
Information on the stability of children looked after on 31 March 2024.
This provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending March 2025.
This ad hoc analysis estimates the impact of expanding Free School Meals in England to all children on UC on poverty levels.
Findings from stages 2 and 3 of the children’s homes workforce census.
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