Data on the number of registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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Reported COVID-19 notifications by registered early years and childcare settings

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Number of COVID-19 notifications made to Ofsted by region and local authority, 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2021

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This page includes:

  • data published fortnightly on the number of registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19 by week – this will run until December 2021, subject to review
  • a one-off dataset that breaks down the number of notifications by region and local authority for each quarter between 1 July 2020 and 30 September 2021

About the data

Early years and childcare providers must notify Ofsted of any serious illness or accident to a child in their care. This includes a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the setting.

Providers must notify Ofsted as soon as reasonably practical, and in any case within 14 days of the incident occurring. Notifications received in one week could represent confirmed cases which occurred during the 2 previous weeks.

If there are multiple reported cases at a setting at one time, a notification can include more than one confirmed case. This means that the number of notifications received does not necessarily correlate with the number of confirmed cases in a setting.

The data is accurate at the time of publication and may be updated at a later date if we receive delayed information.

Providers must follow guidance from Public Health England (PHE) about what to do in the event of a reported case of COVID-19 in a setting.

You can find numbers of childcare providers in Ofsted’s early years and childcare providers official statistics.

Published 30 October 2020
Last updated 16 November 2021 + show all updates

  1. Published an additional one-off dataset that provides a breakdown of the number of notifications by region and local authority for each quarter between 1 July 2020 and 30 September 2021.

  2. Added data for weeks beginning 18 and 25 October.

  3. Added data for weeks beginning 4 and 11 October.

  4. Added data for weeks beginning 20 and 27 September.

  5. Added data for weeks beginning 6 and 13 September.

  6. Added data for weeks beginning 23 and 30 August.

  7. Added data for weeks beginning 9 and 16 August.

  8. Added data for weeks beginning 26 July and 2 August.

  9. Added data for weeks beginning 12 and 19 July.

  10. Added data for weeks beginning 28 June and 5 July.

  11. Added data for weeks beginning 14 and 21 June.

  12. Added data for weeks beginning 31 May and 7 June.

  13. Added data for weeks beginning 17 and 24 May.

  14. Added data for weeks beginning 3 and 10 May.

  15. Added data for weeks beginning 19 and 26 April.

  16. Added data for weeks beginning 5 and 12 April.

  17. Added data for weeks beginning 22 March and 29 March 2021.

  18. Added data for weeks beginning 8 March and 15 March 2021.

  19. Added data for weeks beginning 22 February and 1 March 2021.

  20. Added data for weeks beginning 8 and 15 February 2021.

  21. Added data for weeks beginning 25 January and 1 February 2021.

  22. Added data for weeks beginning 11 and 18 January 2021.

  23. Updated the number of cases for the week beginning 21 December as this was incomplete due to closures over the Christmas period. Also added data for weeks beginning 28 December 2021 and 4 January 2021.

  24. Added data for weeks beginning 14 and 21 December 2020.

  25. Added data for weeks beginning 30 November and 7 December 2020.

  26. Added data from 16 and 23 November 2020.

  27. Added data from 2 to 9 November 2020.

  28. Added data to cover 19 October to 1 November 2020.

  29. Updated the figures for the weeks commencing 5/10/2020 and 12/10/2020 to correct an error in the number of reported cases.

  30. First published.