NCER are a not-for profit Community Interest Company owned by 152 top tier local authorities in England plus the Ministry of Defence Children and Young People Directorate.

Membership of NCER provides access to a wide range of early education, social care, special educational needs, attendance and contextual performance data analysis, intelligence, and infographics and data commentary through Nexus for local authorities and Perspective Lite for schools.


Benefits of NCER Membership


Our Guiding Principles

  • We are a non-profit making Community Interest Company that focuses on the data requirements of local authorities, schools and academies.

  • We enable local authorities to support schools and academies in evaluating performance and raising achievement of all learners.

  • We offer a suite of analytics supporting Children's services directorates within the local authority from Education to Social Care (CLA & CIN), Virtual Schools and SEND.

  • 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 or service level agreement with their schools and academies.

  • We offer a professional community of interest focused on the data needs of local authorities and schools.

  • We liaise with other relevant organisations over aspects of our work.
    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).

Company Details

NCER is a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales (company number 07960839).

Our registered address is 3 Blakely Court, Raby Mere, Wirral, CH63 0ND.