Nursery emails
Dear Department for Education,
Could you please provide me with a list of all nurseries and
pre-schools, both private and council run, in the london area.
Please kindly include full contact details in excel format,
including named head of nursery, address, phone number and email
addresses (both general and for the head of the nursery).
Many thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Paula Daley
Dear Ms Daley
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 2016 - 0012659
Thank you
Department for Education
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Tel: 0370 000 2288
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Dear Paula
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 March 2016. You requested:
“Could you please provide me with a list of all nurseries and pre-schools, both private and council run, in the London area?
Please kindly include full contact details in excel format, including named head of nursery, address, phone number and email addresses (both general and for the head of the nursery)”.
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The department`s list of early years providers in England is populated by two sources:
1. Edubase for local authority nursery schools, and
2. The Early Years Census (EYC) for information on private, voluntary and independent nurseries (PVI).
(EYC - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-...).
Edubase and nursery schools
A csv file containing data from EduBase as at 23 March 2016 is enclosed.
EduBase does not hold individual Head Teacher or school staff email information, we have supplied you with the school email address where possible.
Further information on the terms used within this extract can be found in the EduBase glossary: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/glos...
Private voluntary and independent providers
The department does not hold a list of all PVI nurseries registered in England, only those which receive funding in relation to the funded early education entitlement.
A csv file containing a list of private and voluntary providers in the London area (excluding childminders) as at January 2015 is attached. Data for January 2016 will be available after the statistical publication in June 2016.
The location data provided includes the local authority and the establishment’s postcode. The department does not collect: the establishment’s full postal address; name of proprietor and their contact details; or generic contact details.
The early years census does collect contact details for the nominated person who facilitates the data return. However, the contact details provided are often that of admin staff, teaching staff, accountants or IT suppliers.
Some email addresses and telephone numbers are the member of staff’s personal contact information (e.g. [email address]). The department believes that these are the personal data of the individuals concerned, and that the relevant names, telephone and email addresses should be withheld under section 40(2) of the FOIA. Section 40(2) provides for personal data to be exempt from disclosure where its disclosure would infringe the rights of individuals and contravene any of the data protection principles under the Data Protection Act 1998. This is an absolute exemption in these circumstances which means that it does not require a test to balance the public interest in releasing the information against that in withholding it.
Further information
Ofsted publish similar information which you may find useful. This can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistica....
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Yours sincerely
Chris
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