NCER: Nexus

NCER is a Community Interest Company that is owned by, and serves, local authorities (LAs) in England by providing sophisticated analytical tools for assessing educational outcomes and school performance.

Benefits of NCER Membership

Value for Money

With 152 member authorities, NCER is able to provide collective resources far beyond the reach of individual LAs.

Owned by our Members

NCER is a longstanding community interest company. We are non-profit-making and exist entirely to serve our members.

Early Data Indicators

Our consistently accurate NCER emerging national figures are a result of all member LAs uploading data into a central system.

Ongoing Development

NCER systems are always evolving to adapt to national education reforms, and to meet ever-changing LA needs.

Systems you can Trust

We are a Cyber Essentials certified provider and use world-renowned ISO certified hosting. Secure by design, protected by default.

Vital Intelligence

NCER provides a hub of best practice and knowledge sharing over education data management and future data requirements.

Our Guiding Principles

We are a non-profit making Community Interest Company that focuses on the needs of local authorities, schools and academies.
We enable local authorities to support all schools and academies in evaluating performance and raising achievement of all learners.
We research into new areas of performance analysis and develop common measures to the benefit of all local authorities, schools and academies.
We react to government proposals for new indicators and benchmarks.
We enable local authorities to provide a traded service with their schools and academies.
We offer a professional community of interest focused on the needs of local authorities and schools.
We liaise with other relevant organisations over certain aspects of our work.
For example, the NCER Children Looked After (CLA) Project received start-up support from external organisations, including: the Local Government Association (LGA), Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), the National Association of Virtual School Heads and the Department for Education (DfE).

NCER Management & Governance

Who We Are