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Dear  Joshua Perry 

Thank you for your recent enquiry which was received on 3 February.

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 2021-0010573.

Department for Education

Ministerial and Public Communications Division

Tel: 0370 000 2288

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Dear Mr Perry

Thank you for your email dated 03 February 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) as at
the Jan 2021 School Census.

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

1. LA Number
2. School ESTAB code
3. Local authority Name
4. School Unique Reference Number (URN)
5. School name
6. Establishment Type (ie. community School, nursery, Voluntary aided
school etc) 7. Establishment phase (i.e. primary, secondary) 8. MIS
Software Used 9. Numbers of pupils on roll

Please provide this information from the January 2021 school census.

Thank you in advance for your assistance

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
 
Data from the January 2021 school census, the collection of which is
currently in progress, will not be available until after the publication
of the [1]schools, pupils and their characteristics statistical first
release in June 2021. I have noted your email address and will forward
you the requested information immediately following publication of the
aforementioned statistical first release.

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

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Dear Mr Perry

Please find the attached information you requested from the January 2021
school census. These figures are now available following the publication
of the [1]Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2021 - GOV.UK
(www.gov.uk)

Kind regards

Jon Leyshon

Data Operations Division | Data Directorate | Operations Group

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Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BT

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