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Good Level of Development tool: Compare your GLD data report

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Updated Good Level of Development reports are now available for schools, trusts and LAs on View Your Education Data (VYED). These updates include the 2024 to 2025 Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) data, a new local area report for local authorities and a new contextual score for responsible bodies.

Need help? The user guide on GOV.UK provides more information about the reports.

What is a Good Level of Development report?

Your GLD report is a valuable resource designed to support your leadership, curriculum planning and early years improvement work.

By downloading your GLD report, you will be able to:

  • View clear summaries of your EYFSP data, including for specific early learning goals (ELGs) and pupil groups
  • Access your contextual GLD score, which is the GLD score we would expect a school to achieve with their context taken into account
  • Identify areas of strength and opportunities to improve early years practice
  • Make informed, evidence-based decisions across your early years provision

 

Common Enquiries

  1. How to access your reports as a DfE Sign-In approver
  2. How to access your reports as DfE Sign-In end user 
  3. Who is eligible for a GLD report?

 

 

1. How to access your reports as a DfE Sign-In 'approver'

The tool is available on the View your education data (VYED) platform.

To access the GLD report in VYED, you must have both of the following on your DfE Sign‑in account:

Which sub service you require will depend on whether your organisation is a school, trust or LA.

As a DfE Sign‑in approver, you can add these to your own account by following the steps below.

How to add the service and sub‑service

  1. Sign in to DfE Sign‑in:
  2. Select 'Services' from the top menu.
  3. Under 'Related actions', select 'Add service' to my account.
  4. Choose View Your Education Data.
  5. Select Monitor Your Child Development Data and complete the process.
  6. Sign out of DfE Sign‑in so your permissions can update.

Once your permissions have refreshed, you should be able to access the GLD report in VYED.

 

2. How to access your reports as a DfE Sign-In 'end user'

To access the VYED platform you will need a DfE Sign-in account. Create a DfE Sign-in account if you do not already have one.

To access the GLD data in VYED you must have a DFE sign in account linked to your organisation and the VYED service and appropriate sub service permissions allocated on your DFE sign in account. 

Which sub service you require will depend on whether your organisation is a school, trust or LA. 

 

If you are already linked to your organisation

  1. Log in to DfE Sign-in.
  2. Go to ‘Add services to my account’, then:
    • Check your organisation is correct.
    • On ‘Select a service’, choose ‘View your education data (VYED)’.
    • Select the ‘Monitor your child development data’ sub-service.
  3. Once your request for access has been approved by your organisations approver, log in to the VYED platform to access your report.
  4. Go to the section ‘Monitor your child development data’ to view the dashboard and reports.
    • You will have the option to download your ‘Compare your GLD’ report.
    • This report is specific to your school, local authority, or academy trust.

  5. If you are linked to multiple organisations, repeat these steps for each organisation.

     

If you are not linked to your organisation

  1. Log in to DfE Sign-in.
  2. Go to ‘Organisations’:
    • If your organisation is not listed, select ‘Request access to an organisation’ and follow the instructions.
  3. Your organisation’s approver will receive an email and must approve your request.
    • You should receive an email within 5 days from dfe.signin@education.gov.uk confirming approval.
  4. Once your request for access has been approved by your organisations approver, go to ‘Add services to my account’, then:
    • Check your organisation is correct.
    • On ‘Select a service’, choose ‘View your education data (VYED)’.
    • Select the ‘Monitor your child development data’ sub-service.
  5.  Once your request for access has been approved by your organisations approver, log in to the VYED platform to access your report.
  6. Go to the section ‘Monitor your child development data’ to view the dashboard and reports.
    • You will have the option to download your ‘Compare your GLD’ report.
    • This report is specific to your school, local authority, or academy trust.
  7. If you are linked to multiple organisations, repeat these steps for each organisation.

 

Your organisation’s approver

You can check who your approver is by going to ‘organisations’ and selecting your organisation from the list, then ‘show approvers’.

If there are no approvers for your organisation, your request will be sent to the DfE Sign-in team to be approved.

You can check the status of a request under the ‘Requests’ section of your DfE Sign-in account.

 

3. Who is eligible for a GLD report?

Only the schools that meet all the criteria below will receive a GLD report: 

  • state-funded primary and secondary schools with 2024 to 2025 EYFSP data for more than five pupils 
  • schools that were in the January 2025 census and did not close or change unique reference number (URN) before the 2024 to 2025 EYFSP return 
  • schools that, for each variable feeding into the GLD model, have at least one pupil who is not missing data for that field 

Schools who meet any of the following criteria will not receive a report: 

  • state-funded nursery schools, special schools, alternative provision or independent schools 
  • schools with fewer than 6 children in their reception class for 2024/25 
  • newly opened or recently academised schools 
  • schools missing 100% of data for any field 

 

 

Need support?

If you continue to experience issues, contact your organisation’s approver or visit the DfE Sign-in help pages.

If you have a specific query that is not covered by this information or the guidance, please contact us using the Customer Help Portal.

 

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