Transparency data

DfE external data shares

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

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 14 December 2017
• Last updated: 12 September 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

DfE external data shares: June 2024

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 242 KB

Details

‘DfE external data shares’ includes:

• classification of data – understanding the data we share
• DfE external third-party data shares (approved by the Data Sharing Approvals Panel (DSAP) from May 2018 to end of June 2024)
• regular DfE external third-party data shares supported by appropriate data sharing agreements as of June 2024
• 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 2024)
• data shares with Home Office
• data shares with police and criminal investigation authorities
• data shares through court orders

DfE also provides external access to data under Section 64, Chapter 5, of the Digital Economy Act 2017. Details of these data shares can be found in the UK Statistics Authority list of accredited projects.

Archive

• January 2024 to March 2024
• October 2023 to December 2023
• July 2023 to September 2023
• April 2023 to June 2023
• January 2023 to March 2023
• October 2022 to December 2022
• July 2022 to September 2022
• April 2022 to June 2022
• January 2022 to March 2022
• October 2021 to December 2021
• July 2021 to September 2021
• April 2021 to June 2021
• January 2021 to March 2021
• October 2020 to December 2020
• July 2020 to September 2020
• April 2020 to June 2020
• November 2019 to March 2020
• May 2019 to October 2019
• November 2018 to April 2019
• May 2018 to October 2018
• September 2017 to April 2018
• January 2017 to May 2017
• April 2012 to June 2016

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

Published 14 December 2017
Last updated 12 September 2024 + show all updates

1. 12 September 2024

   Added DfE external data shares for June 2024. Data for January to March 2024 is available in the archived list.

2. 6 June 2024

   Added DfE external data shares for March 2024. Data for October to December 2023 is available in the archived list.

3. 7 March 2024

   Added DfE external data shares for October 2023. Data for July to September 2023 is available in the archived list.

4. 7 December 2023

   Added DfE external data shares for September 2023. Data for April to June 2023 is available in the archived list.

5. 14 September 2023

   Added DfE external data shares for June 2023. Data for January to March 2023 is available in the archived list.

6. 8 June 2023

   Added DfE external data shares for March 2023. Data for October to December 2022 is available in the archived list.

7. 9 March 2023

   DfE external data shares for December 2022 have been added. Data for July to September 2022 is available in the archived list.

8. 8 December 2022

   DfE external data shares for September 2022 have been added. Data for April to June 2022 is available in the archived list.

9. 22 September 2022

   DfE external data shares for June 2022 have been added. Data for January to March 2022 is available in the archived list.

10. 9 June 2022

    Added DfE external data shares for March 2022. Data for October to December 2021 is available in the archived list.

11. 10 March 2022

    Added DfE external data shares for December 2021. Data for July to September 2021 is available in the archived list.

12. 9 December 2021

    Added DfE external data shares for September 2021. Data for April to June 2021 is available in the archived list.

13. 16 September 2021

    Added DfE external data shares for June 2021. Data for January to March 2021 is available in the archived list.

14. 29 July 2021

    Updated details' section to include information about the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) programme.

15. 10 June 2021

    Updated DfE external data shares for January to March 2021. Added data for October 2020 to December 2020 to the archived list.

16. 11 March 2021

    Updated DfE external data shares for October to December 2020. Added data for July 2020 to September 2020 to the archived list.

17. 10 December 2020

    Updated DfE external data shares document. Moved previous publications to archived context section.

18. 10 September 2020

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

19. 11 June 2020

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

20. 13 December 2019

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

21. 18 July 2019

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

22. 1 February 2019

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

23. 13 December 2018

    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.

24. 19 July 2018

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

25. 29 January 2018

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

26. 14 December 2017

    First published.