Details of the term times of Leeds schools since 1993.

As of April 2022, the government of the United Kingdom has dispatched over 1.95 million laptop or tablet devices to local authorities or education providers in England in order to support remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. This scheme initially started to provide laptops and tablets to schools in May 2020 during the Summer term of the 2019/20 academic year and was expanded significantly at the start of 2021, increasing from 562 thousand in December 2020 to more than one million two months later in February 2021.

Following significant government support, 81.9% of secondary schools are now academies according to the government, with maintained schools increasingly converting. Both types remain under strict government guidelines, but academies can decide term dates, curriculums, subject choices and budget decisions. Despite several years of economic turmoil, government funding has remained strong because of the importance of maintaining and improving UK education standards. Secondary education revenue is expected to have grown at a compound annual rate of 1.4% to £66.1 billion over the five years through 2024-25, growing by 2.1% in 2024-25. The COVID-19 outbreak severely disrupted the day-to-day running of schools throughout 2020-21, with temporary closures forcing pupils to stay at home and learn online. The Educational Recovery Fund has supported educational catch-up, totalling around £5 billion in February 2022, preventing a significant drop in revenue during the COVID-19 outbreak. In cash terms, total funding for all state-funded schools totalled £60.7 billion in 2024-25 due to a £3.9 billion funding increase in 2024-25. Private school pupil numbers have marginally dipped, with the ISC recording a 0.1% decline in independent secondary school pupil numbers over the year through January 2024, with the cost-of-living crisis having squeezed some parents' purse strings. For the start of the 2024-25 academic year, private school enrolments were down, especially for new starters in their first year of secondary school, with the potenital for fee hikes if VAT is added in January 2025 looming. This could pose a threat to profit and place more pressure on state schools to open up available places. Secondary education revenue is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 2% to £72.9 billion over the five years through 2029-30. The number of international students attending independent schools has not fallen with immigration policies, as many independent schools hold Student Visa Sponsors. With school costs still continuing to grow by 4% in 2024-25, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, school funding per pupil will remain stretched.

A list of all independent schools and special post-16 institutions for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) approved under section 41 of the Children and Families Act 2014 in England and Wales.

You can filter the list by local authority or by type of setting.

Our guide for independent special schools and special post-16 institutions explains how to apply for approval under section 41.

Voluntary removal

Contact hns.sos@education.gov.uk to request removal from the approved list, stating your reason. We will remove your institution in the next update and notify local authorities. The published list includes all removed institutions.

Once removed, you cannot re-apply for one full academic year.

Other special schools

Details of all special schools in England are available on the https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Search" class="govuk-link">Department for Education’s Get Information about Schools system. This includes:

• maintained schools
• academies
• independent schools
• non-maintained schools

The SEND guide for parents and carers explains how parents can ask for one of these schools or special post-16 institutions to be named in their child’s education, health and care plan.

WARNINGThis data is provided here for users of specialist GIS software only. The same information is available in a much more user-friendly format in the Services near me page on the main council website, and anyone interested in enrolling a child in school should see the page on Enrolment in Primary and Secondary Schools in DundeeDescriptionThis layer contains 5 sublayers - 1 shows all Dundee City Council Schools, and the other 4 show catchment boundaries in the following categories:Denominational PrimaryNon-denominational (Roman Catholic) PrimaryDenominational SecondaryNon-denominational (Roman Catholic) SecondaryThe Council uses catchment areas to decide where your child is given a place at school. A catchment area is an area around a single school. Children who live in this area are usually offered a place at the school. For more information please see DCC Guidance on Enrolment at P1 and S1 and on Placing Requests (208KB MS Word doc)LimitationsTBDUpdatesThis data is updated as required. This typically happens around October or November before enrolment starts for the next school year each year. The data may therefore reflect the catchments that are due to take effect at the start of the next school year. Usage This layer can be used directly in Web apps like the ArcGIS Online mapviewer, dashboards, storymaps, etc, some of which are available via the council websiteMobile apps like ArcGIS FieldDesktop apps like ArcGIS ProLinks to this layer can also be found in:Dundee Council open data portal - for technical specialists to download and exploring the data Improvement Service Spatial Hub - included in a national dataset that is collated and distributed by IS. One Dundee GIS Portal based on ArcGIS Enterprise - for DCC staff on internal DCC devices - TBDScottish Government spatial data portal - TBDdata.gov.uk - TBDUsage in other softwareThis data is also available as a Web Feature Service (WFS) for use in other GIS software such as QGIS. Integration tipsFor most integration purposes it will be easier to use one of the UPRN based items mentioned below under 'Related data'To see how to query this layer please see the 'API Explorer' or modify the examples below.Integration examplesNote that these examples output in pretty json, but the f parameter can be used to change this to other output formats such plain JSON or HTML List of all schoolsAll catchments for an XY locationRelated DataThis layer is used to create the following items for use in system integrations:UPRNs with school catchments - map layer intended for use in live integrations like Firmstep\Granicus. This can be queried to provide all the relevant catchments for a UPRN without needing to know the XY coordinates.UPRN to school catchment seedcode lookup tables - collection of CSV files intended for use in disconnected integrations like SEEMIS, but may also be used to remove dependency on a live integration in Firmstep/Granicus.

WARNING

This data is provided here for specialist users only. The same information is available in a much more user-friendly format in the Services near me page on the main council website, and anyone interested in enrolling a child in school should see the page on Enrolment in Primary and Secondary Schools in Dundee

Purpose

This map layer is provided here as a hosted feature layer that is intended for use in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) like ArcGIS, or live integrations like Granicus Customer Services. The REST API can provide this data with or without Geometry as required.

Description

This layer includes the UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number) of every address in Dundee, plus information about the catchment schools for these addresses.

There are 4 records for each address representing the 4 different types of school catchments i.e.

Denominational Primary Non-denominational (Roman Catholic) Primary Denominational Secondary Non-denominational (Roman Catholic) Secondary

PrivacyThis layer does not contain any personal information, so there are no pupil names etc. All addresses are included, whether or not there are any pupils at that address.

Copyright Limitations

Due to copyright reasons there are no actual addresses in this data, so there are no building numbers, streetnames, postcodes etc. If actual addresses are required these can be obtained from other products and services such as the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG), the One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG) or Ordnance Survey's AddressBase, NGD and OS Places API.The UPRNs and UPRN locations in this layer can also be found in the Ordnance Survey Open UPRN product,

Updates

This data is updated each night with the latest UPRNs from the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG). Catchment data are taken from the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current") which is updated as required. This typically happens around October or November before enrolment starts for the next school year each year. The data may therefore reflect the catchments that are due to take effect at the start of the next school year. For more details on the catchment data please see the the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current")

Integration tips

To see how to query this layer please see the 'API Explorer' or, to retrieve json with just the school names for a UPRN , please see the example below:https://services.arcgis.com/GlZ1P6ksdiXNYhvC/arcgis/rest/services/UPRNs_with_school_catchments/FeatureServer/0/query?where=uprn=%27000117117191%27&outFields=school&returnGeometry=false&f=pJSON

Please also note that UPRN is a text field that must contain 12 digits with leading zeroes, and must be enclosed in single quotes. These quotes and other special characters can be used in plain text as shown above, or URLencoded as shown in the API explorer.Related DataUsers who wish to see catchment boundaries or identify the catchment area(s) for a location described by XY coordinates may wish to use the "SchoolsandCatchments - Current" boundary layer on which this UPRN layer is based. This does not contain any UPRN info, but it does provide a REST API and API explorer.Internal DCC GIS users may also use a version of this layer which includes full CAG addresses: CAG with school catchments. This is not available as open data for copyright reasons.

WARNING

This data is provided here for specialist users only. The same information is available in a much more user-friendly format in the Services near me page on the main council website, and anyone interested in enrolling a child in school should see the page on Enrolment in Primary and Secondary Schools in Dundee

Purpose

This map layer is provided here as a hosted feature layer that is intended for use in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) like ArcGIS, or live integrations like Granicus Customer Services. The REST API can provide this data with or without Geometry as required.

Description

This layer includes the UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number) of every address in Dundee, plus information about the catchment schools for these addresses.

There are 4 records for each address representing the 4 different types of school catchments i.e.

Denominational Primary Non-denominational (Roman Catholic) Primary Denominational Secondary Non-denominational (Roman Catholic) Secondary

PrivacyThis layer does not contain any personal information, so there are no pupil names etc. All addresses are included, whether or not there are any pupils at that address.

Copyright Limitations

Due to copyright reasons there are no actual addresses in this data, so there are no building numbers, streetnames, postcodes etc. If actual addresses are required these can be obtained from other products and services such as the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG), the One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG) or Ordnance Survey's AddressBase, NGD and OS Places API.The UPRNs and UPRN locations in this layer can also be found in the Ordnance Survey Open UPRN product,

Updates

This data is updated each night with the latest UPRNs from the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG). Catchment data are taken from the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current") which is updated as required. This typically happens around October or November before enrolment starts for the next school year each year. The data may therefore reflect the catchments that are due to take effect at the start of the next school year. For more details on the catchment data please see the the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current")

Integration tips

To see how to query this layer please see the 'API Explorer' or, to retrieve json with just the school names for a UPRN , please see the example below:https://services.arcgis.com/GlZ1P6ksdiXNYhvC/arcgis/rest/services/UPRNs_with_school_catchments/FeatureServer/0/query?where=uprn=%27000117117191%27&outFields=school&returnGeometry=false&f=pJSON

Please also note that UPRN is a text field that must contain 12 digits with leading zeroes, and must be enclosed in single quotes. These quotes and other special characters can be used in plain text as shown above, or URLencoded as shown in the API explorer.Related DataUsers who wish to see catchment boundaries or identify the catchment area(s) for a location described by XY coordinates may wish to use the "SchoolsandCatchments - Current" boundary layer on which this UPRN layer is based. This does not contain any UPRN info, but it does provide a REST API and API explorer.Internal DCC GIS users may also use a version of this layer which includes full CAG addresses: CAG with school catchments. This is not available as open data for copyright reasons.

WARNINGThis data is provided here for specialist users only. The same information is available in a much more user-friendly format in the Services near me page on the main council website, and anyone interested in enrolling a child in school should see the page on Enrolment in Primary and Secondary Schools in DundeePurposeThese files are intended to be downloaded and used within systems such as SEEMIS that have access to a separate source of address information such as the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG), One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG) or Ordnance Survey AddressBase.DescriptionThis collection includes the following files:Dundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_all.csvDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_all_primary.csv - required for use in SEEMISDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_all_secondary.csv - required for use in SEEMISDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_denom_primary.csvDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_denom_secondary.csvDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_non_denom_primary.csvDundee_UPRN_SEED_lookup_non_denom_secondary.csvSchema.ini - explicitly sets UPRN datatype to text (with preceding zeroes) for use in excelOnly files 2 & 3 are required for use in SEEMIS. The other files are produced by the same process and are provided here in case they are useful. The combined files (1-3) will contain multiple records for each address. The remaining files (4-7) contain just one record for each address. Each file contains just two columnsUPRN - the Unique Property Reference Number of each address in DundeeSEED - the seedcode of the school catchment that the address is within Both columns are qualified with double quotes and separated with a comma. UPRNs are Unique Property Reference Numbers, as used in the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG), the One Scotland Gazetteer (OSG) Or the Ordnance Survey AddressBase products.. For more information please see www.osg.scotSeedcodes are unique identifiers for Scottish Schools. A full list can be found at https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-contact-details/This collection is updated each night with the latest UPRNs from the Council's Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG). SEED codes are taken from the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current") which is updated as required. This typically happens around October or November before enrolment starts for the next school year each year. The data may therefore reflect the catchments that are due to take effect at the start of the next school year. For more details on the catchment data please see the the Council's current catchment boundaries layer ("SchoolsAndCatchments - Current") This data can be combined with Ordnance Survey OpenUPRN data to visualise it on a map in GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS. Or alternatively see the separate "UPRNs with school catchments" layer.

This table presents the results of interview analyses, showing the number of mentions in each Critical Digital Literacies sub-dimension from each country. These focus group interviews were conducted with teachers from the four consortium schools of the DETECT project in Italy, Finland, Spain and the UK in order to gain a more in-depth understanding of the teachers' particular needs in relation to critical digital literacies. The interviews were organised and conducted by the researchers in the respective local HEIs between February-June 2020. A total of 7 focus-groups interviews took place with a total number of 39 participating teachers (7 from Finland, 6 from the UK, 9 from Spain and 17 from Italy). The interviews were conducted both face to face (schools in Spain) and online (schools in Finland, Italy and the UK) due to pandemic-related restrictions imposed shortly after the start of the data collection period.

This dataset accompanies the intellectual outputs of the DETECT project, including amongst others this report:

Gouseti, A., Bruni, I., Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Mundy, D., Raffaghelli, J., Ranieri, M., Roffi, A., Romero, M. and Romeu, T. (2021) Schools’ perceptions and experiences of critical digital literacies across four European countries - DETECT Report 2. Accessed at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5070394

Acknowledgement

This project was funded by Erasmus+, KA2. Project Reference: 2019-1-UK01-KA201-061508.

Achievements of young people in GCE and Applied GCE examinations and other equivalent qualifications. Revised data.

Age at the start of the academic year i.e. 31 August 2009 for 2009/10.

Students entered for a GCE or VCE A level or other Level 3 qualification equivalent in size to an A level.

England averages include all schools and FE colleges.

A VCE/GCE Applied Double Award at grade AA counts as two grade As, an award at grade AB counts as one.

Some figures have been suppressed to protect pupil confidentiality.

See statistics on 16 to 19 attainment.

This is the average travel time in minutes to 8 key services by public transport/walking. The 8 key services are the average of minimum journey times to medium sized centres of employment (500-4999 jobs), primary schools, secondary schools, further education, GPs, hospitals, food stores and town centres.

It is part of the Journey Time Statistics produced by DfT which consists of theoretical journey times calculated by modelling journeys between known sets of origins and destinations, using information on the road network, traffic speeds and public transport timetables.

Statistics are designed to represent as far as possible the situation in October of the year to which they related. The origins, destinations and public transport timetables used are as far as possible for this date. The traffic data are averages for the preceding 12 months up to and including August. The road networks are those for the previous spring.

The origins used for all Access to Services calculations are the English Output Areas (OA). To provide the actual journey start point in each OA, the population weighted centroid of the OA was shifted to the nearest node (i.e junction) on the road network.

These statistics are very similar to those of the Accessibility Statistics, however, the methodology employed is different so the results are not directly comparable." Data is Powered by LG Inform Plus and automatically checked for new data on the 3rd of each month.

The National Careers Service Find a course service contains information on courses offered by learning providers. It contains information from over 2,700 organisations including colleges, schools, training providers and local authorities.

Courses featured include those aimed at people aged 16 to 18, and adults.

The file is updated monthly. It contains all courses in the service which have a:

• start date on or after the first day of the month preceding the month of publication
• flexible start date

Data published between October 2024 and February 2025 is available on the https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/*/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-careers-service-course-directory#full-publication-update-history" class="govuk-link">UK Government Web Archive.

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/*/https:/www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-course-directory" class="govuk-link">Data published before October 2024 is also available.

For any questions about using the data in the files, contact support@coursedirectory.org.uk.

This is the codebook created for the analysis of focus group interview data collected as part of the DETECT project. In particular, nine interviews were conducted with primary and secondary school teachers in Finland, Italy, Spain and the UK in order to explore their perceptions of critical digital literacies and how these are manifested in their practices. The interviews were organised and conducted by the researchers in the respective local HEIs between February-June 2020. A total of 7 focus-groups interviews took place with a total number of 39 participating teachers (7 from Finland, 6 from the UK, 9 from Spain and 17 from Italy). The interviews were conducted both face to face (schools in Spain) and online (schools in Finland, Italy and the UK) due to pandemic-related restrictions imposed shortly after the start of the data collection period.

The collected data were read and segmented and all interview excerpts relating to the Critical Digital Literacies framework sub-dimensions were marked and chosen for the analysis. The total number of marked segments was 666 in all nine focus group interviews. To ensure the reliability of the analyses, the researchers translated and collected a representative sample of codings (n=117 out of 666) for each sub-dimensions from each school and these were examined by all researchers in several consensus meetings and the final criteria for each sub-category were constructed together based on those discussions.

This dataset accompanies the intellectual outputs of the DETECT project, including amongst others this report:

Gouseti, A., Bruni, I., Ilomäki, L., Lakkala, M., Mundy, D., Raffaghelli, J., Ranieri, M., Roffi, A., Romero, M. and Romeu, T. (2021) Schools’ perceptions and experiences of critical digital literacies across four European countries - DETECT Report 2. Accessed at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5070394

Acknowledgement

This project was funded by Erasmus+, KA2. Project Reference: 2019-1-UK01-KA201-061508.