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Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2022.
Data covers the period 1 September 2018 to 31 March 2019.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 December 2020.
This release combines the 'Early years providers and places' and the 'Early years inspections and outcomes' statistical releases.
Information for providers, parents and carers about what happens when we suspend a childcare provider’s registration.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2019.
Fostering or adopting a child, including from abroad, and being a surrogate mother
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
Management information on the number of 30 hours free childcare codes issued and validated for the summer term 2019.
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