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Childcare sufficiency assessment

Every local authority has a statutory duty to provide enough childcare places for its parents to work or train for employment, if they wish. The assessment also provides ward level data to support businesses seeking to expand or enter the childcare market.

For 2023-24 we are supplying a written overview and, for the first time, an interactive data tool:

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