While the latest Department for Education figures show an increase in the number of codes issued for the 30 hours for the spring 2018 term since last month, 18 per cent have yet to be validated. Parents cannot take up a 30 hours place until their code has been validated.
Nursery World reported on 19 December that 305,691 codes had been issued for the spring term, as of 8 January this had increased to 326,068 – surpassing the DfE’s target.
However, of the codes issued, just 266,494 have been validated (82 per cent).
A breakdown of the figures by local authority show variations in the number of codes that have been issued and validated. For example, Hillingdon has validated just 41 per cent of the 1,464 codes issued to parents and Waltham Forest 51 per cent of the 1,634 codes issued. However, 98 per cent of codes were validated in Solihull where 1,502 codes were issued.
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