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  • Findings from the 2024 survey of parents on childcare and early years.

  • The impact of early education at ages 2 to 11 on child outcomes as part of the study of early education and development (SEED).

  • Findings from the evaluations of the early years professional development programme.

  • This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2025.

  • Findings from the process evaluation of the early years stronger practice hubs programme.

  • A theoretical model to help local authorities and other decision-makers plan new childcare provision under the 2025 childcare reforms.

  • A statistical profile containing information on various aspects of the health of children in Northern Ireland.

  • 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…

  • Process and impact findings from the evaluation of the early years experts and mentors programme.

  • Analysis of final data collected from local authorities who accepted funding through the child and family weight management services grant.

  • 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).

  • How Ofsted has implemented the education inspection framework (EIF) since it was introduced in 2019.

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

  • This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2024.

  • Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.

  • Findings from a trial designed to explore the scope for online, rather than face-to-face, data collection.

  • Research reports of the results from the childcare and early years provider pulse surveys.

  • Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2023 survey of childcare and early years providers.

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

  • Annual local authority metrics about health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood.