School readiness - the % of children with free school meals status achieving a good level of development at the end of Reception

What this data shows:

This is a key measure of early years development across a wide range of developmental areas. Children from poorer backgrounds are more at risk of poorer development and the evidence shows that differences by social background emerge early in life.

How the data is gathered:

Children with free school meal status defined as having reached a good level of development at the end of the EYFS as a percentage of all eligible children with free school meal status.  Children are defined as having reached a good level of development if they achieve at least the expected level in the early learning goals in the prime areas of learning (personal, social and emotional development; physical development; and communication and language) and the early learning goals in the specific areas of mathematics and literacy.

More information about the data source:

Figures for Torbay are not shown in order to protect confidentiality. Values for Isles of Scilly are suppressed as they are based on a single school. For more information please see Indicator 1.02i at www.phoutcomes.info.

Data Source:

Department for Education, Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFS Profile): Early Years Foundation Stage Profile statistical series

Data Period:

2017/18

Further Information:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2017-to-2018 Only includes pupils with a valid result for every achievement scale.

All English providers of state-funded early years education (including academies and free schools), private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sectors are within the scope of the EYFSP data collection. Data for any children in the PVI sector no longer in receipt of funding who were included in the return submitted by the LA to DfE will not be included in the figures.

Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals excludes those for whom free school meal eligibility was unclassified or could not be determined.

Data includes results for those children who were in receipt of a government funded early education place at the end of the EYFS only. Children who are not in receipt of a funded place at the end of the EYFS are not in the scope of the Department's EYFS Profile data collection and therefore not included in the results.

The results are for funded children who were assessed at the end of the academic year. Children who have been held back will be included in the results cohort for the year in which they are assessed and so these tables may include results from some children outside of the usual EYFS age range.

Ordinarily the EYFS Profile must be completed in the final term of the academic year in which the child reaches the age of five, the only exceptions being where an exemption from all or part of the EYFS assessment arrangements has been granted for the setting by the Secretary of State for Education or where a child is continuing in EYFS provision beyond the year in which they turn five.

Children with any A (exemption) or missing scores in any area of their EYFS Profile are excluded from all summary scale tables

This indicator is available via the Public Health Outcomes Framework - http://www.phoutcomes.info/