Early learning and childcare service model for 2020: consultation analysis

Chapter 2 Who responded

There were a total of 219 written responses to the consultation: 129 responses were from organisations and 90 responses from individuals (see Figure 1).

Figure 1 – The number of individual and organisational responses

Of the 90 individual written submissions, we were unable to robustly identify whether they were childminders, parents or other members of the public. Therefore, no analysis of individual written submissions is broken down by respondent type.

Figure 2 breaks down the organisational respondents into different organisational types. Nearly half of all organisational were from providers.

Figure 2 – The types of organisations that responded

Figure 3 provides a more detailed breakdown of written organisational respondents. The type of organisations that responded most often were private nurseries (48 respondents), followed by local government respondents^[1] (29 respondents) and representative bodies (14 respondents).

Figure 3 – Further breakdown of organisational responses
Private nurseries are the respondent type that responded most often, followed by local government respondents

The full list of organisational respondents can be found in Appendix 2.

As already described in Chapter 2, there are notes from eight consultation events included in the analysis. The events were largely attended by providers.