DfE: Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2010
| Description | The 2010 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey is the latest report in a series of surveys that began in 1998. The 2010 report provides information on the key characteristics of childcare and early years provision and the early years workforce across the public, private and voluntary sectors. This includes information on: provider characteristics; number of places and children attending; staff characteristics; qualifications of staff; training; recruitment and retention; income and expenditure.
Key breakdowns are by types of providers, region, and levels of deprivation.
Where appropriate, comparisons are made with previous waves of the survey, largely the 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006 waves.
Key findings from the survey:- In 2010 the survey recorded 105,100 providers of childcare and early years education, of which 15,700 were early years providers in maintained schools and 89,500 were childcare providers.
- The long term decrease in the number of active childminders continued in 2010 and the total now stands at 47,400. This marks a decrease of 7 per cent since 2009 (in contrast to the other types of childcare provider whose numbers increased in 2010).
- In 2010, there were an estimated 440,800 vacancies across all types of provider. Around a quarter of these (28 per cent) were to be found in full day care settings, where there were 122,700 vacancies.
- With the exception of sessional providers, there has been an increase in the estimated number of paid and unpaid staff working in all types of childcare settings since 2005, and the estimated total across all types of setting now stands at 434,100.
- The large majority of staff in group-based childcare settings had a relevant qualification at level 3 (76 per cent) in 2010. This is a significant increase from the figure of 65 per cent in 2007 and marks progress from the 2009 figure of 73 per cent. The proportion of childminders with a level 3 qualification had also increased, from 41 per cent in 2007 to 54 per cent in 2010.
- In general there was little evidence that the financial situation of most types of provider had deteriorated in 2010. Two thirds (66 per cent) of full day care providers and three quarters (74 per cent) of sessional providers reported that they had either made a profit or covered their costs in the previous financial year.
Corrections have been made to the the following paragraphs of the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2010:- Main report Chapter 1: Summary - Section 1.3.1, paragraph 5 (page 18); and
- Research Brief Main Findings: Section Places, Attendance and Vacancies - fourth bullet point on page 7.
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| Reference ID | OSR17/2011 |
| Coverage Country | England |
| Date Released | 28 September 2011 |
| Main Category | Children, Education and Skills
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| Sub Category | Pre-school learning Click on subcategory link to see if there is later information |
| Type | Statistical Release | |
| Contact | Maura Lantrua maura.lantrua@education.gsi.gov.uk tel: 0114 274 2064 |
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