Qura · SEND Intelligence

How Qura sources SEND data

Last updated 13 October 2026

SEND Intelligence is a research service for specialist staffing and therapy suppliers. It brings together public information about special schools, alternative provision, schools with SEN units, state-funded mainstream primary and secondary schools in England, the trusts and councils that run them, the vacancies they advertise and related public tenders, so that suppliers can find and respond to staffing needs sooner.

Where the information comes from

Official school records: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education) for England; School contact details (Scottish Government); Address list of schools (Welsh Government); School enrolment school-level data (Department of Education, Northern Ireland). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Scottish Government asks commercial callers to seek permission from the local authority before contacting schools directly.
Vacancies: the careers or vacancies pages that schools, academy trusts and councils publish on their own websites, checked about once a day. Each vacancy links back to the original advert, and applications are always made through the employer's own process.
Tenders: public procurement notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, including pipeline and market engagement notices and the end dates of contracts already let, and the below-threshold notices published on Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales (Sell2Wales once its data service is working again).
Council figures: Department for Education statistics on education, health and care plans; Ofsted management information on school inspections; Ofsted and Care Quality Commission area SEND inspection outcomes; council forward plans of key decisions published on council websites (Qura reads only sites whose robots.txt allows it and that serve pages without a bot check, keeps the item title, decision maker role, due date and link, and never stores officer names); Education and Skills Funding Agency dedicated schools grant allocations; and Department for Education publications on Safety Valve agreements and the Delivering Better Value in SEND programme. All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

We do not use commercial job boards unless we hold a licence to do so, and we do not use Teaching Vacancies unless the Department for Education agrees.

Children and families

Qura never collects, stores or shows any information about pupils, families or Education, Health and Care Plans. Where we show figures such as the number of pupils with an EHC plan at a school, these are totals published in official school records.

Information about staff

Council SEND contacts. SEND Intelligence shows the names, job titles and work contact details of council officers responsible for SEND services and contracts, only where the council publishes them on its own website. Each one links to where we found it and shows when we last checked it. Where a council publishes a team inbox instead, we show that and no name. We never use officer names from council forward plans, and we never guess or invent email addresses.

Schools. For schools we show only a general office address that the school publishes on its own website (such as office@ or admin@), never a named person's address. Official school records include the name of each head teacher. Qura does not keep or show those names. To tell subscribers that a school has a new head teacher, we keep only a one-way code made from the name, which cannot be turned back into it and is replaced each week. From mainstream schools, Qura shows only vacancies for SEND roles, such as SENCOs, SEN teaching assistants, specialist teachers and therapists.

Why we are allowed to. We rely on legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR): the interest of specialist staffing and therapy suppliers in reaching the people responsible for SEND services, balanced against your rights. We keep our assessment on file and you can ask to see it. Details are shown only to paying subscribers, whose terms forbid bulk mailing and adding you to marketing lists. An email started from Qura to a council contact says where the details came from.

How long we keep it. We check each council again at least every 90 days. A contact we no longer find is hidden at once and deleted 30 days later, and anything we have not confirmed for 12 months is deleted. You can ask us to remove your details at any time with the form below; we stop showing them straight away and keep only a one-way code so they are not added again.

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Ask us to remove your details

We stop showing matching details straight away and confirm by email within one month if you give an address.

Qura Ltd, company number 17310951, 167 to 169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF. Questions: privacy@qurahealth.org. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.