Local Authorities

153 local authorities
Local Authorities
153
Tracked areas
EIF Inspections
2,725
Nov 2025 framework
National Avg QI
3.16
Expected Standard = 3.0
Most Active (30d)
Surrey
39 inspections
Top Performers — by QI (min 5 EIF)
1
Camden
3.6
2
Walsall
3.51
3
Greenwich
3.5
4
Havering
3.48
5
Kingston upon Thames
3.45
Needs Attention — by QI (min 5 EIF)
1
Luton
2.44
2
Cumberland
2.5
3
Thurrock
2.57
4
North Lincolnshire
2.75
5
Bath and North East Somerset
2.78
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Quality index 3.0 = Expected Standard average. Grade bar shows EIF grade distribution per area.
Local Authority ▼ Grade Dist. / QI Total EIF Last 30d SG Not Met (12m) Childminder Non-Domestic School
B Barking and Dagenham
3.34 		319 10 4 — 118 134 67
Barnet
3.31 		682 18 8 1 268 239 156
Barnsley
3.24 		403 11 3 — 186 120 97
Bath and North East Somerset
2.78 		324 8 2 — 121 125 77
Bedford
3.01 		302 7 1 — 132 95 73
Bexley
3.1 		644 17 10 — 378 177 86
Birmingham
3 		1,612 39 10 1 461 704 424
Blackburn with Darwen
2.83 		266 12 3 — 92 89 79
Blackpool
2.79 		155 2 — — 57 59 39
Bolton
3.23 		440 16 7 — 153 159 126
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
3.39 		540 19 8 — 195 243 95
Bracknell Forest
3.41 		301 13 7 — 175 95 29
Bradford
3.31 		827 24 10 — 372 248 196
Brent
3.1 		434 10 2 — 158 186 78
Brighton and Hove
3.33 		352 13 3 1 75 212 61
Bristol
2.99 		730 24 5 — 307 267 139
Bromley
3.22 		831 25 14 — 451 267 110
Buckinghamshire
3.29 		1,195 37 13 — 494 490 208
Bury
3.06 		288 11 3 — 115 107 65
C Calderdale
2.91 		353 8 1 — 122 127 98
Cambridgeshire
3.21 		1,297 40 11 — 557 464 264
Camden
3.6 		321 7 2 — 110 133 73
Central Bedfordshire
3.13 		623 15 5 1 357 141 121
Cheshire East
3.07 		574 17 4 1 166 259 143
Cheshire West and Chester
3.04 		534 22 6 1 157 228 149
City of London
3.33 		11 1 — — — 10 1
Cornwall
3.06 		803 27 7 — 220 301 279
Coventry
3.25 		540 18 3 — 265 155 118
Croydon
3 		793 17 6 — 378 288 120
Cumberland
2.5 		359 7 2 1 80 95 179
D Darlington
2.81 		158 4 4 — 60 43 53
Derby
3.38 		348 4 4 — 131 115 94
Derbyshire
2.93 		1,185 29 11 — 389 417 373
Devon
3.19 		1,173 41 18 2 403 443 326
Doncaster
3.25 		512 17 7 — 273 112 126
Dorset
3.08 		478 24 9 — 139 192 144
Dudley
3.32 		367 10 2 — 115 148 98
Durham
2.86 		667 19 7 1 282 159 215
E Ealing
3.38 		549 17 10 — 186 259 98
East Riding of Yorkshire
3.33 		526 14 7 — 178 186 157
East Sussex
3.2 		643 23 7 — 197 272 173
Enfield
3.21 		525 17 4 — 227 205 91
Essex
3.29 		2,568 80 28 1 895 1125 544
G Gateshead
3.36 		260 7 1 — 75 103 77
Gloucestershire
3.24 		1,107 27 12 — 326 512 264
Greenwich
3.5 		678 14 6 1 340 248 85
H Hackney
3.16 		499 9 3 — 166 179 148
Halton
3.05 		236 5 — — 92 82 61
Hammersmith and Fulham
3.33 		276 9 6 — 76 124 71
Hampshire
3.22 		2,685 110 32 1 1041 1130 507
Haringey
3.17 		373 11 1 — 123 162 80
Harrow
3.33 		365 3 1 — 122 175 61
Hartlepool
3.5 		110 2 1 — 60 21 29
Havering
3.48 		540 16 5 — 214 244 80
Herefordshire
3.01 		263 8 2 — 69 104 90
Hertfordshire
3.23 		2,619 66 20 — 1240 876 483
Hillingdon
3.16 		498 17 2 2 231 168 97
Hounslow
2.98 		425 17 4 2 178 160 87
I Isle of Wight
3.35 		148 4 1 — 39 50 58
Isles of Scilly — 4 — — — 2 1 1
Islington
3.11 		336 3 2 — 148 130 54
K Kensington and Chelsea
3.73 		185 4 — — 30 94 53
Kent
3.25 		2,578 70 25 — 983 1016 567
Kingston upon Hull
2.93 		282 11 6 — 74 102 106
Kingston upon Thames
3.45 		330 8 4 — 169 108 52
Kirklees
3.18 		733 12 3 — 261 307 164
Knowsley
2.89 		207 9 5 — 72 64 71
L Lambeth
3.42 		543 15 7 — 243 221 70
Lancashire
3.12 		2,047 85 26 — 683 793 546
Leeds
3.22 		1,514 33 11 3 798 426 284
Leicester
2.79 		376 8 3 — 88 177 111
Leicestershire
3.13 		1,241 43 12 3 507 458 270
Lewisham
3.23 		693 10 5 — 327 278 73
Lincolnshire
2.9 		1,162 25 9 2 421 389 348
Liverpool
3.16 		629 27 5 — 201 255 167
Luton
2.44 		301 9 3 1 95 133 68
M Manchester
2.94 		815 21 10 1 403 230 178
Medway
3.17 		469 15 8 — 210 164 93
Merton
3.15 		464 8 3 — 253 149 58
Middlesbrough
2.92 		166 2 — — 65 45 55
Milton Keynes
3.26 		527 11 3 — 239 188 97
N Newcastle upon Tyne
3.3 		345 7 2 — 119 139 84
Newham
3.14 		429 9 5 — 141 165 110
Norfolk
3.34 		1,261 24 10 1 405 453 397
North East Lincolnshire
2.97 		210 6 — — 83 63 58
North Lincolnshire
2.75 		271 6 4 — 84 101 83
North Northamptonshire
2.98 		634 14 3 — 297 184 144
North Somerset
3.27 		371 12 2 — 164 137 67
North Tyneside
3.28 		288 3 — — 135 82 70
North Yorkshire
3.02 		1,080 41 21 1 326 424 321
Northumberland
3.14 		459 9 3 — 149 139 171
Nottingham
3.1 		377 7 1 — 156 109 112
Nottinghamshire
3.02 		1,231 35 6 — 520 429 282
O Oldham
3.16 		417 8 2 — 167 163 87
Oxfordshire
3.13 		1,283 44 14 — 507 489 279
P Peterborough
3.23 		377 10 4 — 151 147 77
Plymouth
2.98 		324 10 4 1 90 133 99
Portsmouth
3.44 		294 15 4 — 100 133 61
R Reading
2.94 		294 6 1 — 118 117 56
Redbridge
3.05 		467 12 5 1 177 217 71
Redcar and Cleveland
3.07 		233 11 4 — 126 49 58
Richmond upon Thames
3.33 		436 14 8 — 151 219 61
Rochdale
2.85 		408 10 3 1 187 150 68
Rotherham
3.29 		411 9 7 — 200 96 112
Rutland
3.33 		55 3 — — 10 26 19
S Salford
2.92 		542 10 6 — 193 186 162
Sandwell
3.06 		471 15 4 — 128 215 128
Sefton
3.26 		307 15 7 — 82 127 93
Sheffield
3.24 		713 18 9 — 271 277 162
Shropshire
3.08 		435 12 4 — 144 173 113
Slough
2.92 		221 3 2 — 112 63 41
Solihull
3.1 		355 9 6 — 156 134 65
Somerset
3 		754 36 14 — 251 286 214
South Gloucestershire
3.03 		488 18 9 — 151 247 89
South Tyneside
3 		183 3 — — 75 52 53
Southampton
3.06 		365 13 3 — 137 135 90
Southend on Sea
3.06 		259 12 3 — 131 74 54
Southwark
3.07 		608 16 6 1 305 192 99
St Helens
2.96 		188 13 4 — 56 67 64
Staffordshire
3.09 		1,363 41 16 — 479 492 383
Stockport
2.87 		600 23 13 — 307 179 111
Stockton-on-Tees
3.2 		316 10 3 — 158 78 79
Stoke-on-Trent
3.04 		278 9 — — 81 104 92
Suffolk
3.17 		1,080 26 6 — 333 444 302
Sunderland
3.07 		293 9 3 — 113 66 108
Surrey
3.22 		2,564 94 39 2 1321 884 336
Sutton
3.28 		426 15 4 — 215 157 52
Swindon
3.11 		396 16 7 — 204 110 79
T Tameside
3.35 		408 9 4 — 218 119 71
Telford and Wrekin
2.93 		272 5 1 — 108 102 59
Thurrock
2.57 		307 5 1 — 162 91 54
Torbay
3.25 		173 4 — — 75 52 46
Tower Hamlets
3.44 		345 9 2 — 103 149 90
Trafford
3.41 		485 15 7 1 216 181 86
W Wakefield
3.2 		572 22 6 2 284 133 152
Walsall
3.51 		305 9 3 — 105 83 110
Waltham Forest
3.34 		493 16 6 — 226 179 84
Wandsworth
3.14 		558 12 3 1 188 283 82
Warrington
3.24 		356 11 3 — 148 133 74
Warwickshire
2.91 		994 20 7 — 345 414 228
West Berkshire
3.14 		355 11 7 — 153 128 72
West Northamptonshire
3.13 		726 20 7 1 279 266 175
West Sussex
3.12 		1,541 51 16 1 584 673 272
Westminster
2.94 		229 6 1 1 64 108 53
Westmorland and Furness
2.97 		275 9 3 — 57 73 141
Wigan
3.22 		461 11 4 — 169 166 123
Wiltshire
3.27 		976 32 11 — 369 379 224
Windsor and Maidenhead
3.2 		314 9 2 — 126 126 58
Wirral
3.33 		489 12 1 — 203 171 112
Wokingham
3.22 		383 13 5 — 177 144 57
Wolverhampton
3.27 		314 11 2 — 94 119 95
Worcestershire
3.24 		894 39 13 1 284 383 220
Y York
3.11 		339 7 2 — 143 125 68