Number of childcare places available

Number of childcare places available. This indicator can be used to monitor change in the number of childcare places available. For parents in low income groups there is a shortage of affordable and appropriate child-care, both for pre-school and school-aged children. There is an increased risk of poverty amongst families with young children as lack of affordable child care often discourages parents from working. A study of 20 countries, mostly European, found that the UK had the highest child-care costs of all countries, amounting to a quarter of average earnings1.Evaluation of non-parental out-of-home day care before the age of 5 years has found that it is associated with improvement in a range of educational and social measures. However, the effect of early separation of parent and child on the child's social and emotional development and attachment is still in debate. registered places are the maximum number of children that may attend the provision at any one time. Registered places are not the number of places occupied, nor the number of children who may benefit from receiving places through providers offering sessions at different times of the day. They also do not account for places on the voluntary part of the Childcare Register (VCR) as Ofsted does not normally set the maximum number of places for providers on the VCR.

London Health Observatory

NHS Information Centre Indicator Portal

https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/velocity?v=2&mode=
documentation&submode=ddi&study=http%3A%2F%2F172.16.9.2
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England

County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

2010

2003 to 2010

Annually

Administrative data

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