Dear  Steve Baines 

Thank you for your recent enquiry which was received on 17/02/2025.

A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible and this should be within
20 working days, as you are requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2025-0005817 .

Yours sincerely

Department for Education

Ministerial and Public Communications Division

Tel: 0370 000 2288

Web: [1]https://www.education.gov.uk
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Dear Steve Baines 

Thank you for your request for information, which was received on
17/02/2025 15:07 . You requested:   

“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 Spring (January) 2025 School Census please.

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

Please provide this information from the Spring (January) 2025 School
Census.”

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

The spring 2025 school census will be open until the middle of March. I
expect the information you have requested to be available in the week
commencing 17 March. I will send this information on to you as soon as it
is available.

If you have any queries about the above, or need to contact us
further, please visit [1]https://www.education.gov.uk/contactus and quote
your reference number.

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 communication. Your complaint will be
considered by an independent review panel comprising officials who were
not involved in the original consideration of your request. 

If you are not content with the outcome of any such complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Yours sincerely

 Jon LEYSHON

 Department for Education

Web: [2]https://www.education.gov.uk
X (formerly Twitter): [3]https://www.x.com/educationgovuk 
Facebook: [4]https://www.facebook.com/educationgovuk

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Dear Steve Baines

I attach a CSV file containing the following fields: local authority
number; school number; local authority name; school URN; school name;
establishment phase (i.e. primary, secondary); establishment type (i.e.
community school, nursery, voluntary aided school, etc.); software
supplier code; number of pupils.

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.

Kind regards

Jon Leyshon

Collections Ownership & Governance Team
Data Operations Division

E: [1][email address]

[2]gov.uk/dfe | [3]@education.gov.uk | [4]fb.com/education.gov.uk

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From: ACCOUNT, Unmonitored <[email address]>
Sent: 14 March 2025 14:16
To: Steve Baines <[FOI #1240572 email]>
Subject: Department for Education, Freedom of Information (FOI) Request
Reference: 2025-0005817 CRM:0671114

Dear Steve Baines 

Thank you for your request for information, which was received on
17/02/2025 15:07 . You requested:   

“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 Spring (January) 2025 School Census please.

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

Please provide this information from the Spring (January) 2025 School
Census.”

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

The spring 2025 school census will be open until the middle of March. I
expect the information you have requested to be available in the week
commencing 17 March. I will send this information on to you as soon as it
is available.

If you have any queries about the above, or need to contact us
further, please visit [5]https://www.education.gov.uk/contactus and quote
your reference number.

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 communication. Your complaint will be
considered by an independent review panel comprising officials who were
not involved in the original consideration of your request. 

If you are not content with the outcome of any such complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Yours sincerely

 Jon LEYSHON

 Department for Education

Web: [6]https://www.education.gov.uk
X (formerly Twitter): [7]https://www.x.com/educationgovuk 
Facebook: [8]https://www.facebook.com/educationgovuk

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We are the department for opportunity

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