Dear Mr Davies

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 2013/0065572

Thank you

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

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Dear Mr Davies,
Thank you for your email dated 21 October 2013 about Edubase.
You requested: “I would be grateful if you could please send me current information about all the
special schools (including maintained, independent, special academies etc) in England.

I need the following for each special school:

1. Name of school
2. Postal address
3. Designation of school, e.g. maintained/ academy/ independent
4. LEA
5. Email address for school
6. School telephone number
7. Name of Head Teacher
8. School 'unique reference number'

I would also like to know the number of pupils on roll in each establishment (part-time and
full-time).

I would be grateful if you could send me all this information (i.e. for each school) in an Excel
spreadsheet.

I look forward to hearing from you very soon.”

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and a  copy of the
information as held by the Department as at 24^th October 2013 is attached. 

I have prepared for you on an Excel spreadsheet –

A list of special schools in England as at 22nd October 2013. The list includes the following: URN,
LA Number, LA Name, Establishment Number, Establishment Name, Type Of Establishment, Address,
Postcode, Telephone Number, Head Title, Head First Name, Head Last Name, Head Job Title and email
address where available.

At present the Department does not hold individual Head Teacher or school staff email information,
and for this reason we have supplied you with the school email address where possible.

The extract can be sorted to your own requirements by Phase of Education (primary, secondary etc.)
or Type of Establishment (academy, free school, community school, etc.). Further information on
these and other terms used within this extract can be found in the EduBase glossary:
 [1]http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/glos...

Pupil numbers by school are available to download as part of the additional information for the
publication “Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2013” which is available on the
GOV.UK website here:
[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

As part of the data extract we have included the school Unique Reference Number (URN) so that if
you require further information on any particular school record please go to
[3]www.education.gov.uk/edubase where you will be able to view more information.

If you have any further issues or queries please do not hesitate to contact the EduBase helpdesk
using the feedback form: [4]http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/feed...

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
([5]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
-[6]http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/infor... .

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. 

Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2013/0065572. If you need to respond to us,
please visit: [7]www.education.gov.uk/contactus, and quote your reference number.

Yours sincerely,

Graham Devonshire
Data and Statistics Division

[8]www.education.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Davies,
Thank you for your email dated 25 October 2013 about EduBase.
You wrote: "Many thanks for responding to my FOI request so promptly. I
really appreciate it. In your response, you mentioned that although you
could not provide email addresses for Head Teachers, you had provided
email addresses for the schools. However, the Excel spreadsheet that you
sent does not contain any email addresses. I would be very grateful if you
could please amend the spreadsheet and send me the revised version, which
contains school email addresses where possible." 

The excel spreadsheet that we sent did include the email address
information, however I understand that the What do they know website edit
these from the public view, but they should be available if you login.  

Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2013/0066890. If
you need to respond to us, please visit:
[1]www.education.gov.uk/contactus, and quote your reference number.

Yours sincerely,

Graham Devonshire
Data and Statistics Division

[2]www.education.gov.uk

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