Steve Bowler

Region/Local Authority Name - Post Code checker (AEB)

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Hi,

Bit of a random one but hoping somebody can help! Following a meeting with our contract manager, we need to track learner volumes for non-devolved AEB by region. I have a list of the region names (East Midlands, South East A etc.) along with the Local Authority Codes/Names (E06000015 Derby, E06000016 Leicester etc.), but I cannot find anything in the ESFA reports that give these values.

I thought I'd be able to find a list of postcodes somewhere online where I could run a lookup against my list of learner postcodes and calculate it that way, but I can't see one. Has anybody else done something like this before and can suggest the best way for me to do this?

Thanks

Steve

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Steve Hewitt

Ha, I know my techies have done it as we've got a little widget that shows LA as well as Devolved/non-Devolved when you stick a postcode in and had assumed it was just in the AEB dataset, mais non!

So, I guess they've probably got the ONS data from here (or a similar dataset):

https://open-geography-portalx-ons.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ons::national-statistics-postcode-lookup-2021-census-november-2023/about

which is HUGE, but at least it's free these days! It's got every possible type of lookup you may need for every UK postcode.

Steve Bowler

Thanks Steve I'll have a look :-)