Do you have concerns that your local schools are offering or planning to offer similar services to you which could impact negatively on your nursery/wraparound care business?
Has your local school already put in an application? If this is likely to threaten your nursery services please contact [email protected] with more details as we are keeping a log of these cases to put to the Department for Education (DfE) to make sure they know this is happening.
There are concerns that the spaces available in schools to create new nursery capacity are not necessarily in areas with the greatest demand for places. You can find the Government’s own assessment of the need to grow places by local authority area here.
The DfE has set the criteria for schools accessing funding for extending or developing new nurseries and breakfast clubs. This must be demand-led and they must not duplicate or threaten provision that is already established in the local area.
What are Childcare Sufficiency Assessments?
Local authorities across England have a duty of sufficiency, to make sure there are enough childcare places including early years and wraparound to meet demand from the families in their area.
As part of this sufficiency duty they must produce regular Childcare Sufficiency Assessments.
What is NDNA doing about this?
During the summer 2024 we asked all local authorities in England whether they had updated their assessment reports in the last two years. We also asked if they could send NDNA their latest assessment report.
Out of 122 who responded, 99 local authorities had updated their assessments in the last two years. Please find a list below of all those reports from local authorities who sent these to us. Some will be missing but hopefully you will find what you need. If not, try searching for them on your local council website or contact your local authority early years team.
Each report is produced differently but, within the assessment reports, you should be able to find information about your council area but also your local ward area. This will include numbers of children needing funded places, those with SEND, childcare places for wraparound to age 12 etc.
How will NDNA’s Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report research help you?
This should help you to understand whether there is enough demand for additional services in your local area or not – including whether there is a strong argument for you to expand or open an additional nursery. If you are concerned that there is not enough demand for your local school(s) to offer similar services to yourself, contact the council’s early years team to put forward your case.
Find your local authority Childcare Sufficiency Assessments Report
EM – East Midlands
Derby – no report received
Derbyshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Leicester – no report received
Leicestershire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Lincolnshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
North Northamptonshire – no report received
Nottingham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Nottinghamshire – no report received
Rutland – download Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
West Northamptonshire – not yet published
EOE – East of England
Bedford – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report being finalised, contact [email protected]
Cambridgeshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Central Bedfordshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Essex – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Hertfordshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Luton – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Norfolk – no report received
Peterborough – no report received
Southend-on-Sea – no report received
LDN – London
Barking and Dagenham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Barnet – no report received
Bexley – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Brent – no report received
Bromley – no report received
Camden – no report received
Croydon – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Ealing – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Enfield – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Greenwich – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report report here
Hackney – no report received
Hammersmith and Fulham – download 2022/2023 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Haringey – no report received
Harrow – no report received
Havering – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Hillingdon – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Hounslow – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Islington – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Kensington and Chelsea – no report received
Kingston upon Thames – no report received
Lambeth – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Lewisham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Merton – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Newham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Redbridge – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Richmond upon Thames – no report received
Southwark – currently finalising 2024 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report
Sutton – currently reviewing 2024 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report
Tower Hamlets – no report received
Waltham Forest – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Wandsworth –see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Westminster – no report received
NE – North East
Darlington – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Durham – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being refreshed
Gateshead – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Hartlepool – no report received
Middlesbrough – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Newcastle upon Tyne – no report received
North Tyneside – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Northumberland – no report received
Redcar and Cleveland – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
South Tyneside – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Stockton-on-Tees – no report received
Sunderland – no report received
NW – North West
Blackburn with Darwen – no report received
Blackpool – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Bolton – once finalised, will be available here
Bury – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Cheshire East – no report received
Cheshire West and Chester – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Cumberland (from legacy Cumbria County Council 2022) – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Halton – see Childcare Suffiency Assessment Report here
Knowsley – currently being reviewed
Lancashire – no report received
Liverpool – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Manchester – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Oldham – no report received
Rochdale – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being finalised
Salford – no report received
Sefton – no report received
St. Helens – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Stockport –see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Tameside – no report received
Trafford – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being finalised
Warrington- Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being finalised
Westmorland and Furness (from legacy Cumbria County Council 2022) – download Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Wigan – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Wirral – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being finalised
SE – South East
Bracknell Forest – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report report here
Brighton and Hove – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Buckinghamshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
East Sussex – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Hampshire – no report received
Isle of Wight – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Kent – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Medway – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Milton Keynes – no report received
Oxfordshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Portsmouth – download Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Reading – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Slough – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Southampton – no report received
Surrey – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
West Berkshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
West Sussex – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Windsor and Maidenhead – no report received
Wokingham – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report currently being finalised
SW – South West
Bath and North East Somerset – no report received
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Bristol, City of – download Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
Cornwall – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Devon – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Dorset – no report received
Gloucestershire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
North Somerset – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Plymouth – no report received
Somerset – download Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here (pdf)
South Gloucestershire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Swindon – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Torbay – no report received
Wiltshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
WM – West Midlands
Birmingham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Coventry – no report received
Dudley – no report received
Herefordshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Sandwell – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Shropshire – no report received
Solihull – no report received
Staffordshire – no report received
Stoke-on-Trent – no report received
Telford and Wrekin – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Walsall – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Warwickshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Wolverhampton – 2024 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report being finalised
Worcestershire – no report received
Y&H – Yorkshire & Humber
Barnsley – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Bradford – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Calderdale – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Doncaster – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
East Riding of Yorkshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Kingston Upon Hull, City of – no report received
Kirklees – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Leeds – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
North East Lincolnshire – no report received
North Lincolnshire – no report received
North Yorkshire – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Rotherham – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here
Sheffield – no report received
Wakefield – see Childcare Sufficiency Assessment Report here