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Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2018-0036206.

Thank you

Department for Education
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Tel: 0370 000 2288

Dear Annie

Thank you for your email dated 10 September 2018 about the school
census.

You wrote:

‘I would like to see a breakdown of which software is used by schools to
return the school census to the department e.g. their MIS supplier.

Please could you provide this information in an Excel spreadsheet
containing the following fields:

Local Authority Number

Establishment Number

School Name

Establishment Type (i.e. Community School, Nursery, Voluntary Aided
School, etc.)

Establishment Phase (i.e. Primary, Secondary)

MIS Software used

Number of pupils on roll

Please provide this information from the Summer 2018 census.’

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.

An Excel spreadsheet containing the requested information for spring
2018 is enclosed. The spreadsheet contains the local authority number,
establishment number, establishment name, establishment unique reference
number, establishment type, establishment phase, MIS supplier software
code and number of pupils for each school. It is not possible to provide
the software supplier name as this information is not collected.
However, the software supplier code we have included contains the
software supplier name in the majority of cases.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you
should make a complaint to the Department by writing to me within two
calendar months of the date of this letter.  Your complaint will be
considered by an independent review panel, who were not involved in the
original consideration of your request. 

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Kind Regards

Kirsty Knox

Department for Education