To Early Years development and childcare partnership lead officers and local authority funding contacts

The purpose of this bulletin is to provide an update on general progress of the 2012 Early Years Census and to offer some guidance and advice on current issues with the data collection.

For ease of reference, the contents of the bulletin are as follows:

  1. Purpose
  2. General progress
  3. Cleaning of Ofsted URNs
  4. Unique reference numbers
  5. Database closure to LAs
  6. Funding reports
  7. Support