Request:
Please share the birth-rate data and related datasets used by North Tyneside Council to inform its school-place forecasts within the North East Planning Area.
Include:
Source data (ONS or local records);
The method used to apply birth data to cohort forecasts; and Any internal summary or explanatory document.
Please include materials held by Data & Insight, Education Place Planning, and Children’s Services (Julie Firth).
Response:
Source: Birth Rate information for the whole borough, recorded as in catchment births by year is attached.
This information is derived from data received from the DfE relating to GP registrations by postcode, and by academic term of birth. This original source data is down to individual birth data and cannot be shared but the analysis data which is broken down by catchment area is attached.
The original source data is withheld under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Information is exempt from disclosure if it is the personal data of an individual other than the requester and where the disclosure of that personal data would be in breach of any of the data protection principles.
The method and internal summary or explanatory document information is in the Pupil projection methodology document attached.