Dear Mr Harrington

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 2017-0031192.

Thank you

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

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Dear Andrew

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 16 June 2017. You
requested: 

 

“Please can you provide the following information for all Day Nurseries
and First schools including all Pupil Referral Units within the UK?

 

I would like a list of all the names of Seniors Contacts/Heads, email
address of contact, address, telephone number, plus the school's URN
number.

 

Please can the information be provided in a spreadsheet”.

 

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
through two sources:

 

 1. Edubase, the department`s register of educational establishments; and,
 2. The Early Years Census (EYC) for information on private, voluntary and
independent (PVI) providers
([1]https://www.gov.uk/guidance/early-years-...).

 

 

Edubase and nursery schools

 

A file containing data from EduBase, as at 5 July 2017, is included with
this response. This includes email address and contact telephone numbers
where they are available.

 

Further information on the terms used within this extract can be found in
the EduBase glossary: 
[2]http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/glos...

 

Private, voluntary and independent providers (PVIs)

 

The department does not hold a list of all PVI providers registered in
England, only those who receive funding in relation to the funded early
education entitlement. A file containing our list of private and voluntary
providers in England (excluding childminders), as at January 2017, is
attached.

 

The location data provided includes the local authority and the
establishment’s postcode. The department does not collect the
establishment’s full postal address.

 

The early years census collects contact details for the nominated person
who facilitates the data return. However, the contact details provided are
often that of administrative staff, teaching staff, accountants or IT
suppliers. Some email addresses and telephone numbers appear to be a
member of staff’s personal contact information (e.g.
[email address]). Therefore, the department believes that these are
the personal data of the individuals concerned and that the relevant names
and email addresses should be withheld under section 40(2) of the Freedom
of Information Act. 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: [3]FOI: early years dataset as at 31 March 2017 - Publications -
GOV.UK

 

The Department for Education is responsible for education and children’s
services in England. The department does not hold information for
educational establishments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This
information may be available using the following links:

 

Scotland:
[4]http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Br...

 

Wales:
[5]http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research...

 

Northern Ireland: [6]http://www.deni.gov.uk/

 

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by copyright.
You are free to use it for your own purposes, including for private study
and non-commercial research, and for any other purpose authorised by an
exception in current copyright law. Documents (except photographs) can be
also used in the UK without requiring permission for the purposes of news
reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, would
require the permission of the copyright holder.

 

Most documents produced by the Department for Education will be protected
by Crown Copyright. Most Crown copyright information can be re-used under
the Open Government Licence
([7]http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/o...). For
information about the OGL and about re-using Crown Copyright information
please see The National Archives website
-[8]http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/infor...
.

 

Copyright in other documents may rest with a third party. For information
about obtaining permission from a third party see the Intellectual
Property Office’s website at [9]www.ipo.gov.uk.

 

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. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Chris Noble

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