Response to Coram’s 2025 Childcare Survey

Response to Coram’s 2025 Childcare Survey

We are pleased to see that the report identifies the significant challenges facing local authorities across the country at the present time in relation to early education. Specifically, it highlights the lack of sufficiency for children with SEND, stating that only 29% of local authorities have over 75% sufficiency for this group.

In previous years, the report highlighted the percentage of areas that were fully sufficient in places for children with SEND – which last year was only 6%. We would argue that changing the marker for ‘sufficiency’ to 75% or more is a dangerous reduction in expectations. For true sufficiency 100% of children should planned for, welcomed into early education successfully and supported effectively, and when we look at this number, the sufficiency has fallen again to just 4%.

We look forward to working with the DfE and early years partners to improve the measurement of SEND sufficiency within the early years Childcare Sufficiency Assessments, to standardise the processes which support settings to access funding and respond to need, and to improving collaborative working to ensure that no child with SEND is denied access to early education.

Read the full report here.

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