Children: Day Care

(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many free child care places there were in Lancashire in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 25th March 2015

The table below provides the number of part time equivalent funded early education places, in Lancashire, from 2005 to 2014:

Part time equivalent number of funded early education places filled by 2-year-olds

Part time equivalent number of funded early education places filled by 3- and 4-year-olds

2005

-

22,300

2006

-

22,500

2007

-

22,600

2008

-

23,300

2009

-

23,800

2010

-

25,000

2011

-

25,200

2012

-

26,200

2013

-

26,700

2014

1,400

26,800

Source: Early Years Census (EYC), School Census (SC), and School Level Annual School Census (SLASC). Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

Prior to 2010, the number of part-time places filled was derived by counting children taking up: 12.5 hours per week as one place; 10 hours per week as 0.8 places; 7.5 hours per week as 0.6 places; 5 hours per week as 0.4 places; and 2.5 hours per week as 0.2 places. A child taking up a place at a maintained nursery or primary school was counted as one part-time funded place. Since 2011, a part-time equivalent place has been equivalent to 15 hours. The part time equivalent places filled is derived from the number of funded places filled according to the amount of free entitlement a child receives. A child who holds a place at a maintained nursery or primary school is counted as one part time equivalent funded place.

The latest statistics can be found online at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/provision-for-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2014

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