The following table shows the number of part-time equivalent places filled by three and four year olds in Feltham and Heston constituency from 2004 to 2009.
The Department publishes information on the part-time equivalent number of free early education places filled by three and four-year-olds in maintained, private, voluntary and independent providers. Information on the number of pre-school places is not separately available. Part-time equivalent places are derived by counting children taking up 12 and a half hours per week as one place, 10 hours per week as 0.8 places, seven and a half hours per week as 0.6 places, five hours per week as 0.4 places and two and a half hours per week as 0.2 places. Data at parliamentary constituency level are not available prior to 2004.
Three-year-olds Four-year-olds 2004 970 1,400 2005 990 1,300 2006 1,100 1,400 2007 1,100 1,400 2008 1,200 1,400 2009 1,300 1,600 1 A place is equal to 12.5 hours (five sessions) and can be filled by more than one child. 2 Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. 3 Prior to 2004, information on early education places was derived from returns made by local authorities as part of the Nursery Education Grant (NEG) data collection exercise. These data were collected at local authority level, therefore, data for this parliamentary constituency are not available prior to 2004. 4 Age of all children taken at 31 December in the previous calendar year. Source: Early Years Census and School Census
The latest figures on early education places for three and four-year-olds in England were published in Statistical First Release (SFR) 11/2009 “Provision for children under five years of age in England: January 2009”, available on my Department’s website
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000848/index.shtml