Where are the childcare deserts and oases?

Where are the childcare deserts and oases?

Ofsted's multi award-winning project turned disparate data into novel real-world insights on everyday experiences of parents + childminders

By Government Analysis Function

Date and time

Thu, 15 May 2025 06:00 - 07:00 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Where are the childcare deserts and oases?

Ofsted

Join this session find out more about Ofsted's now multiple award-winning Childcare deserts and oases project, which has transformed disparate cross-government and commercial data into novel real-world insights on the everyday experiences of parents seeking nurseries/childminders.

The work provides a hyperlocal view of childcare access across 180,000 neighbourhoods in England, using a two-step-floating-catchment model to account for local transport connections and the population of local children.

This analysis has been instrumental in the early evaluation of a £14-billion investment in expanded childcare entitlements and their potential influence on local labour market participation. Ongoing data feeds from this modelling are informing policy discussion and evaluation at the highest levels across No.10 and Department for Education (DfE).

Join this session to find out more about work that won Ofsted the Analysis in Government (AiG) Award for Collaboration and a member of the team, the Professor Sir Ian Diamond Rising Star Award at this year's awards.


About the presenters

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills, a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.

The presenting team includes members of the Government Statistical Service (GSS).


What you could learn in this session

  • Communicating results of analysis / communicating with impact
  • Using analysis to influence and impact policy formation / collaborating with Policy Profession
  • Demonstration of a technique or tool that helped the team make an impact
  • Skills or training that help the team make an impact

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Will this event be recorded?

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AiG Month is organised by the Analysis Function Central Team. You can contact us about AiG Month at Analysis.Function@ons.gov.uk

What is the Analysis Function?

The Analysis Function is one of several cross-government functions tackling the big issues across the entire civil service. Other government functions include Finance Function, HR Function, and Commercial Function. All government analysts are considered to be members of the Analysis Function

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