Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many child minders were listed on Ofsted's Early Years register in each year since 2010-11.
Table 1 of the statistical release “Registered Providers and Places in England: December 2008 onwards” sets out the number of childminders registered on Ofsted’s Early Years Register. This data is available here:
Table 1 of the statistical release “Childcare providers and inspections” for each year sets out the number of childminders registered on Ofsted’s Early Years Register. This data is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/early-years-and-childcare-statistics.