The ONS said the statistics for children's daycare facilities at 31 March 2002, which were to have been published on 31 July, would not now be published until October, because of the 'mixed quality' of data Ofsted had received from local authorities.
The ONS said, 'The figures on children's daycare facilities up to and including 2001 were derived from local authority estimates returned to the Department for Education and Skills by local authority social service departments. There is no equivalent source of data for 2002.'
The ONS added that although figures on the number of childcare providers and places could be derived from the individual provider figures that local authorities had transferred to Ofsted, as well as new registrations since last September, 'the data Ofsted received from local authorities were of mixed quality'.
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