Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated
April 2024

Description

This data reports management information from DfE's Eligibility Checking Service.

Coverage

We are publishing cumulative numbers of two-year-old children applying for the April 2024 term.

File formats and conventions

Three variables are reported - Codes Issued, Codes Validated, and the percentage of issued codes which have been validated.

Data files

Issued and validated code totals nationally as at 17th April

Filename: 18042024_national_data.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2024
Content summary: This file report total counts of codes issued and validated for two-year-olds by 17th April 2024.

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name         |  Variable description
--------------------  |  ---------------------------------
codes_issued          |  Codes issued for two-year-olds
codes_validated       |  Codes validated for two-year-olds
percentage_validated  |  Percentage of codes validated

Footnotes:

1. Whilst care has been taken to remove duplicates from the data, as described in the methodology section, there may be unique cases where more than one code may exist for one child.
