Transparency data

DfE external data shares

Department for Education (DfE) approved data shares with external, third-party organisations.

Published 14 December 2017
Last updated 10 September 2020 — see all updates
From:
Department for Education
Applies to:
England

Documents

DfE external data shares: June 2020

ODS, 242KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

DfE external data shares: June 2020

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 256KB

Details

‘DfE external organisation data shares’ includes:

  • classification of data - understanding the data we share
  • DfE external third-party data shares (approved by DSAP from May 2018 to end of June 2020)
  • regular DfE external third-party data shares supported by appropriate data sharing agreements as of June 2020
  • third-party requests for data from the national pupil database (approved prior to April 2018 where data is still held by the requestor as at 30 June 2020)
  • data shares with Home Office
  • data shares with police and criminal investigation authorities
  • data shares through court orders

Previous versions of this data can be found on the UK Government Web Archive:

The data in the archived documents may not match the department’s internal data request records due to definitions or business rules changing following process improvements.

Published 14 December 2017
Last updated 10 September 2020 + show all updates

  1. Updated DfE external data shares document. National pupil database requests now included within external data shares document. Previous publications moved to archived context section.

  2. Updated ‘National pupil database requests’ and ‘External data shares’ spreadsheets. Updated archived content list and dates in details section.

  3. Updated 'National pupil database third party requests' and 'External data shares' spreadsheets. Updated archived content list and dates in details section.

  4. Updated 'National pupil database third party requests' and 'External data shares' spreadsheets.

  5. Updated 'National pupil database third party requests' and 'External data shares' spreadsheets.

  6. Replaced all attachments with updated versions. Updated details section to reflect changes. Previous versions of this page can be found on the UK Government Web Archive.

  7. Added 'National pupil database third-party requests’ from October 2017 to April 2018. Updated external organisation data shares.

  8. Added updated versions of the 'National pupil database third-party requests' documents. Added sentence about archived document to bottom of details section.

  9. First published.

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