Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 1 July 2008, Official Report, columns 823-24W, on children: day care, how many senior managers on average a local authority nursery had at the most recent date for which figures are available. (223762)

The Childcare and Early Years Providers survey collects information on staff type in childcare and early years providers. Table 1 shows the total and average number of senior managers working in full day care settings, by type of ownership of the setting in 2007.

*Table 1: Number of senior managers in full day care providers, by ownership of provision, 2007*
	Private	Voluntary	Local authority	School/college	Other	Total
Total number of senior managers	8,700	2,700	800	900	300	13,400
Average number of senior managers per setting	1	1	1	1	1	1
Note: Numbers by type of ownership may not sum to the total due to rounding.

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008