Our customers
Department for Education
The Department for Education is responsible for children’s services and education, including early years and schools,
For over 20 years SDA delivered the DfE's national School Performance Tables. For the last 3 years SDA has gone on to deliver the their Financial Benchmarking Reports, which promotes best practice by allowing schools to compare themselves with other similar schools or multi-academy trusts.
Cabinet Office
The Civil Contingencies Secretariat is the executive department of the Cabinet Office responsible for emergency planning in the UK
SDA delivered the Civil Contingencies Secretariat's most recent resilience capability survey, a complex enquiry to establish the resilience and readiness status of all UK responder organisations, utilities and Local Authorities and thereby prepare for civil or other emergencies. Read the case study.
National Casino Forum (NCF)
The National Casino Forum's mission is to promote a well-regulated, socially responsible and economically sustainable casino industry.
SDA worked with NCF to build and deliver SENSE, NCF's extremely successful voluntary system which allows people identifying themselves as problem gamblers to exclude themselves from all UK land-based casinos.
At the British Casinos Awards on 6th February 2018, SENSE was highly commended by British Casino Operators in the category 'Best UK CMS/software product'.
The Department for Work and Pensions
DWP is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy.
SDA successfully delivered DWP's Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot, a joint project between DWP and DH that was funded by HM Treasury.
Kent County Council
Kent County Council is one of the largest local authorities in England.
Kent uses SDA's 'Online Free School Meals" (OFSM) system to provide all 626 of the schools for which it is reponsible with eligibility checking services to instantly identify those children who qualify for free school meals.
University of Nottingham
Nottingham University is the lead member of the Professional Services Quality Survey consortium (PSQS)
SDA have delivered the Professional Services Quality Survey on behalf of the consortium since 2015, evolving and developing it in the interim. Read the case study.
Southwark Council
Southwark London Borough Council is the 11th largest London borough by population.
SDA has worked in partnership with Southwark Council since 2005 to develop and maintain its Children's Services Statistical Databank.
Ofsted
Ofsted is responsible for inspecting a range of educational institutions, including state schools and some independent schools
SDA helped Ofsted to deliver a wide range of solutions, including Self Evaluation and Enhanced Data Collection, to schools and local authorities over many years.
Kantar TNS
Kantar is a global market research firm with a presence in over 100 countries
SDA have used their data processing expertise to help Kantar TNS marshall and structure their huge 2018/19 Center Parcs consumer study.
Online Eligibility Checking Systems
Alongside Kent County Council, these are some of the many other organisations that rely on our systems and services to establish the eligibility of the children in their care for receipt of a wide range of benefits, both on their own and their schools' behalf:
Testimonials
“...SDA's fully managed service enabled all of (our) service requirements to be seamlessly integrated into the delivery plan...each delivered to time and cost.”
Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
“We like working with (them) because we know that the team will really get into the details of our project, read it carefully, give us good advice and script it perfectly.”
Ipsos MediaCT
“I realise that our needs were very demanding at times, but you and your colleagues responded magnificently with a high degree of professionalism and technical ability.”
Jon Thompson, Director General of Corporate Services Directorate, DCSF
“All services have been major high-profile initiatives for Ofsted, which have delivered core business services in areas where timeliness, accuracy and responsiveness have been paramount.”
Anthony Boucher, Chief Statistician, Ofsted