Pre-school Education
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free early years education places were provided in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Information on the take up of free early years places in Suffolk and England is shown in the table below.
Number of three and four-year olds benefitting from funded early education places[1] | ||
Suffolk | England | |
2009 | 14,960 | 1,158,760 |
2010 | 15,140 | 1,186,370 |
2011 | 15,450 | 1,224,470 |
2012 | 16,100 | 1,264,420 |
2013 | 16,200 | 1,283,500 |
Source: Early Years Census (EYC), School Census (SC) and School Level Annual School Census (SLASC) | ||
The data is not available at parliamentary constituency level and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The response covers the information requested for England only.
[1] Count of children aged three and four at 31 December in the previous calendar year. Numbers of three and four-year-olds in schools may include some two-year-olds. Any child attending more than one provider will have only been counted once. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.