Consultation outcome

Surveys on childcare and early years in England

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 29 March 2018
• Last updated: 20 December 2018 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Surveys on childcare and early years in England

Ref: DFE-00363-2018

PDF, 222 KB, 18 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks user perspectives on 2 surveys released as official statistics on childcare and early years provision in England.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
11am on 29 March 2018 to 11:45pm on 18 May 2018

Consultation description

We are seeking user perspectives on the childcare and early years survey of parents, which provides information on parents with children aged 0 to 14 in England. It covers parents’ and their children’s use of childcare and early years provision, and their views and experiences.

We are also seeking views on the survey of childcare and early years providers, which collects information on the main characteristics of childcare and early years providers in England.

We are consulting on the following aspects of each survey:

• frequency
• sampling
• mode(s)
• topic coverage
• outputs and approaches to dissemination

Any changes to the surveys will be introduced from 2019 onwards.

Published 29 March 2018
Last updated 20 December 2018 + show all updates

1. 20 December 2018

   Added the government response.

2. 29 March 2018

   First published.