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Children: Day Care

Answer

The available information is shown in the tables.Table 1 provides information about the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds in Darlington parliamentary constituency area. Data is provided for 2007 only because parliamentary constituency data are not yet available for 2008.

Table 1: Part-time equivalent number of free early education places¹, ² filled by three and four-year-olds Darlington Parliamentary Constituency: Position at January 2007
	Three-year-olds	Four-year-olds
	maintained nursery and primary schools3	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total three year olds	maintained nursery and primary schools4	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total four year olds
2007	710	5330	1,000	930	6130	1,100
¹. A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child.
2 Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise.
³ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census.
4 Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census
5 Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.
6 Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

Table 2 provides information for 2008 about the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds for Darlington local authority area

Table 2: Part-time equivalent number of free early education places¹, ² filled by three and four-year-olds, Darlington Local Authority: Position at January 2008
	Three- year-olds	Four-year-olds
	maintained nursery and primary schools³	other maintained and private, voluntary and independent providers	total three year olds	maintained nursery and primary schools4	other maintained and private,. voluntary and independent providers	total four year olds
2008	810	5410	1,200	1,100	6140	1,200
¹ A place is equal to five or more sessions and can be filled by more than one child.
² Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise.
³ Headcount of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census.
4 Headcount of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the School Census.
5 Part-time equivalent number of children aged three at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.
6 Part-time equivalent number of children aged four at 31 December in the previous calendar year from the Early Years Census and the School Census.

The latest figures on early education places for three and four year olds in England were published in Statistical First Release (SFR) 12/2008 "Provision for children under five years of age in England: January 2008", available on my Department's website:"www.dcsf.gov.uk/rspateway/."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

479 c1604-6W; 219623

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Children Pre-school education Darlington

Link

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