Funder: Department for Education
Our Future: Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England: Cohort 2 (LSYPE2)
The aims of the survey are to: 1. follow a sample of young people through the last few years of compulsory education. 2. follow their transition from secondary education to education, training, employment and other activities. 3. collect information about their careers and about factors affecting their careers. 4. provide an evidence base about the lives and experiences of young people.
National Pupil Database (NPD)
The National Pupil Database collects data on children and young people aged 2-21 in state funded education and higher education. Data are matched using pupil names, dates of birth and other personal and school characteristics, including special educational needs, disability, and indicators for free school meals, a child in care, and families in the armed forces. Schools use Management Information Systems to collect and analyse pupil-level information at local level. Data from these systems are used to complete the termly school census returns provided to Local Authorities (regional) or directly to the Department for Education (national) three times a year. The database is used to assess school funding and performance and supports policy making as well as further research.
School Census (SchC)
Completion of the school census is a statutory requirement under section 537A of the Education Act 1996. Most schools complete the school census three times per year.These collections give an excellent coverage of pupils educated in England. Local authority maintained schools and pupil referral units submit census data to their local authority who authorize the data and then submit it to the department. Academies and other schools not maintained by a local authority are responsible for submitting their own data to the department. The data aims to give a fair representation of the policy area, aiding the work of policy makers and commissioners.
Special Educational Needs Person Level Survey (SEN2)
SEN2 collects data about children for whom the local authority has responsibility for the management of the SEN processes, under the 1996 Education Act and the 2014 Children and Families Act. The information collected via the annual SEN2 data collection provides the major source of data collected on children and young people with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. It is the only source of data on the totality of EHC plans maintained by individual local authorities. It allowed ministers, Parliament, central and local government, external organisations and the public at large to monitor government policies and their effectiveness, and to see how many children and young people with EHC plans there are in individual local authorities.