School Census software

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Dear Department for Education,

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:

MIS Software number (and name where available)

Local Authority Number

School 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 most recent complete census

Yours faithfully,

A Hudson

Department for Education

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Department for Education

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Thank you for your email dated 29 September 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:

MIS Software number (and name where available)

Local Authority Number

School 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 most recent complete census.”
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”).
An Excel spreadsheet containing the requested information requested is enclosed. The spreadsheet contains the MIS supplier software code, local authority number, establishment number, establishment name, establishment type, establishment phase 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.
I have provided data from the summer school census 2016.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number below 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.

Department for Education

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Thanks you for your email dated 29 September 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:

MIS Software number (and name where available)

Local Authority Number

School 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 most recent complete census."

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

An Excel spreadsheet containing the requested information is enclosed. The spreadsheet contains the MIS supplier software code, local authority number, establishment number, establishment name, establishment type, establishment phase 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.

I have provided data from the summer school census 2016.

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