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Dear  Joshua Perry 

Thank you for your recent enquiry which was received on 17/11/2020 .

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 2020-0064740.

Department for Education

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Dear Mr Perry

Thank you for your email dated 16 November about the school census. You
wrote:

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 (i.e. their MIS Supplier).

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

1. Local authority Number
2. Local authority Name
3. School Unique Reference Number (URN)
4. School name
5. Establishment Type (ie. community School, nursery, Voluntary aided
school etc) 6. Establishment phase (i.e. primary, secondary)
7. MIS Software Used
8. Numbers of pupils on roll

NB some previous responses to similar queries by other requesters have
excluded the school URN. If it is possible it would be preferable to
include the URN, as this helps greatly when matching the census
information with other DfE data releases.

Please provide this information from the October 2020 school census.

Thank you in advance for your assistance

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
 
An Excel spreadsheet containing the requested information is enclosed.
This comes from the autumn 2020 school census and contains the local
authority number, local authority name, URN, school name, establishment
type, establishment phase, software supplier code and the number of pupils
in each school. It is not possible to provide the software supplier name
as this information is not held. However, the included software supplier
code 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.

Regards
Jon Leyshon

Data Operations Division, Data Directorate, Operations Group
Level 1, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London