Latest update: 25 October 2022

Percentage of settings providing funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) achieving good or better across all four quality themes. Find out more about this indicator.

In 2021, the percentage of settings providing funded Early Learning and Childcare achieving Care Inspectorate grades of good or better across all four quality themes was 89.4%. This is a decrease of 1.4 percentage points from the previous year.

• In 2021, the percentage of settings providing funded Early Learning and Childcare achieving Care Inspectorate grades of good or better across all four quality themes was 93.3% for children and family centres, 89.4% for nurseries and 85.7% for playgroups.

• In 2021, the percentage of settings providing funded Early Learning and Childcare achieving Care Inspectorate grades of good or better across all four quality themes was 90.8% for SIMD quintile 1, 87.7% for quintile 2, 89.0% for quintile 3, 91.7% for quintile 4, and 87.3% for quintile 5.

• In 2021, the percentage of settings providing funded Early Learning and Childcare achieving Care Inspectorate grades of good or better across all four quality themes was 86.3% for large urban areas, 90.4% for other urban areas, 91.3% for accessible small towns, 85.3% for remote small towns, 92.9% for accessible rural, and 89.6% for remote rural.

Breakdowns can be viewed on the Equality Evidence Finder.