Reference Id: SFR08/2013

Publication type: Statistical release

Publication data: Pre-release access data

Region: England

Release date: 31 January 2013

Coverage status: Final

Publication status: Published

This survey aims to provide up-to-date and accurate information on parents’ childcare arrangements and their views of particular childcare providers and childcare provision in general.

The report describes in detail what childcare is used by different types of families, changes in take-up over the years, parents’ reasons for using or not using childcare and for choosing particular providers and the influence of childcare arrangements on mothers’ decisions about whether to go out to work.

Key breakdowns are by age of child, types of providers, family socio-economic classifications, region, and levels of deprivation.

Some time series allow comparisons to be made from 2004 although comparisons between 2010 and 2011 are more common.

Some key findings from the survey:

1. In 2011, 78% of all families with children aged under 15 had used some form of childcare. This equated to 4,181,000 families or 5,954,000 children. 63% had used formal childcare and/or early years provision and 39% used informal childcare.
2. There is no change in uptake of formal or informal childcare from 2010.
3. Significant differences in levels of formal childcare use were found when looking at certain characteristics (and remained significant when analysed alongside a range of other factors): * Age: receipt of formal childcare was most common among 3- and 4-year-olds (87%) * Family circumstances: children in working families and higher income families were more likely to receive formal childcare than workless families or low-income families. * Ethnicity: formal childcare is more likely to be used by children from white British families than those from all Asian ethnic groups.
4. Take-up of formal childcare also differed significantly by other characteristics (ethnicity, region, deprivation, and rurality) when they were analysed in isolation but were not statistically significant when analysed alongside other factors.
5. Around one quarter of parents (26%) thought it was difficult or very difficult to pay for childcare (mainly workless families, lone parents) but just over half thought it was easy or very easy to pay (51%). This shows no change from 2010.
6. Just over half (53%) of non-working mothers said that they would prefer to work if they could arrange reliable, convenient, affordable, and good quality childcare, showing no change from the 2010 survey.

Amendments have been made to the Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2011 following the identification of the incorrect calculation of the proportion of families not using childcare in the past year. This has only affected one reporting of the statistic in section 6.5.

Steve.hamilton@education.gsi.gov.uk

The parental conflict indicator is comprised of 2 measures:

• the proportion of children in couple-parent families living with parents who report relationship distress
• the proportion of children in separated families who see their non-resident parents regularly

These statistics are published once every 2 years (biennial) in line with the availability of underlying data.

Overview

Ofsted publishes this data to provide a more up-to-date picture of the results within https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Parent View. This management information covers submissions received in the previous 365 days for independent schools inspected by Ofsted and maintained schools and academies in England.

Within these releases, you can find:

• an overall question-by-question breakdown of the results for both school types
• a further breakdown of these results by phase and region for maintained schools and academies
• data on the number of submissions received and the response rates for the above categories
• for publications from 2018 onwards, individual school-level data for schools with 10 or more submissions

Publications from September 2021 to April 2022

Due to COVID-19, routine inspections were paused from April 2020 until September 2021. While Parent View is open for submissions all year round, parents are encouraged to fill out the Parent View survey during inspections. Please bear this in mind when interpreting releases where data was collected during this period, as there were fewer submissions received.

Publications from 2020 onwards

The questions used in the Parent View survey changed in September 2019. Due to this change, the releases in the following academic year only contain submissions from the first academic term (January 2020 release), then the first and second academic terms (April 2020 release). Please bear this in mind when comparing to previous releases. Future releases will contain a full rolling 365-day period of the new question data.

Publications from 2017 onwards

These releases now only include submissions for schools that were open and eligible for inspection by Ofsted at the point the management information was produced. Because of this change, the data from these new releases is not completely comparable with the data found within the 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 releases.

Publications from 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016

This management information covers submissions received to https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">Parent View, in each academic year since 2014 to 2015, for independent schools and maintained schools and academies in England.

These releases only include submissions for schools that were open and eligible for inspection by Ofsted throughout each academic year.

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These statistics provide estimates of the following:

• the number of separated families in Great Britain and the number of children in those families

• the proportion of separated families with a child maintenance arrangement and whether this arrangement is statutory or non-statutory

• the total amount of child maintenance received by parents with care, by arrangement type

• the net impact of child maintenance payments on the number of children in low-income households

• characteristics of separated parents and the impacts of child maintenance payments on where their households are represented in the income distribution

This release includes the following additional estimates of the characteristics of parents with care and non-resident parents, by child maintenance arrangement type:

• gender

• age

• reported disability status

• ethnic group

• marital status

This release also contains revisions to data for the 2022 to 2023 financial year. The following tables are affected:

• Table 2: The proportion of separated families with a child maintenance arrangement

• Tables 6-9: The position of separated parent households in the Great Britain income distribution

• Table 10: The percentage of children in parent with care households who remain in low income after child maintenance payments

These changes result from two factors:

1. Use of a new question response in the survey to help inform which parents have non-statutory arrangements

2. A revision to income data for 2022 to 2023 due to the exclusion of one element of the low- income benefits and tax credits Cost of Living Payment

The parental conflict indicator is comprised of 2 measures:

• the proportion of children in couple-parent families living with parents who report relationship distress
• the proportion of children in separated families who see their non-resident parents regularly

These statistics are published once every 2 years (biennial) in line with the availability of underlying data.