Data collection and censuses for schools

School censuses and school-level annual school censuses (SLASC), school capacity surveys, phonics screening checks, key stage 1 and 2 assessments data.

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Guidance and regulation

1. School to school service: how to transfer information
   • Detailed guide
   • 26 March 2014
   • Department for Education
2. Data protection: privacy notice model documents
   • Guidance
   • 21 August 2019
   • Department for Education
3. Data protection: toolkit for schools
   • Guidance
   • 14 September 2018
   • Department for Education
4. School to school (S2S) data transfer system: guides
   • Guidance
   • 26 July 2019
   • Department for Education
5. How to access Department for Education (DfE) data extracts
   • Detailed guide
   • 23 October 2019
   • Department for Education

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News and communications

28 March 2019 — News story

Government on track to create one million new school places this decade

Department for Education

1. Thousands more children on track to become fluent readers
   • 28 September 2017
   • Department for Education
   • News story
2. National database of governors
   • 1 July 2016
   • Department for Education
   • News story
3. Parents given power of veto on schools’ use of biometric information
   • 15 May 2012
   • Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

1. School capacity: academic year 2018 to 2019
   • 26 March 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
2. School workforce in England: November 2018
   • 9 October 2019
   • Department for Education
   • National statistics
3. School capacity: academic year 2017 to 2018
   • 28 March 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
4. Secondary and primary school application and offers: 2018
   • 29 October 2018
   • Department for Education
   • Official statistics
5. School capacity: academic year 2016 to 2017
   • 15 March 2018
   • Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency
   • Official statistics

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. English proficiency: pupils with English as additional language
   • 27 February 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
2. Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2020
   • 19 February 2020
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
3. Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2019
   • 16 August 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
4. School improvement support for 2018 to 2019: summary statistics
   • 7 May 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency
5. The proportion of pupils in academies and free schools, in England, in October 2018
   • 23 January 2019
   • Department for Education
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Department for Education
2. Education & Skills Funding Agency
3. Standards & Testing Agency

Explore sub-topics

1. Alternative provision censuses
2. General hospital school censuses
3. Key stage 1 and 2 assessments data collection
4. Parental responsibility measures attendance censuses
5. Phonics screening checks
6. School capacity surveys
7. School censuses and school-level annual school censuses (SLASC)
8. School exclusion reviews
9. School preference and admission appeals data collection
10. School workforce censuses
11. Special educational needs surveys