Figures for childcare settings based on submissions from local authority providers were published weekly from last March alongside school attendance figures, however, early years data was reduced to fortnightly publication earlier this year.
In its latest release, the DfE announced that it will stop collecting early years data at the end of the summer term “unless there are significant changes to guidance around attendance at early years settings in relation to Covid-19”.
School data will continue to be released.
Latest figures show that 875,000 children were attending early years childcare settings on 13 July – around 54 per cent of the number of children who usually attend childcare in term time.
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