School Email addresses

Hi

I would like to contact schools via email and would like to have access to school email accounts held by Local Authorities not just the generic emails. Can anyone tell me how this is possible?

Kind regards

I don't think there is an open source of e-mail addresses for UK schools. There are some commercial services that collect school e-mail addresses and sell them. However generally schools and local authorities don't publish e-mail lists because schools don't want to be spammed by direct marketing companies.

Yesterday (27/02/2012) the Department for Education released a list of e-mail contacts for UK schools, in response to a Freedom of Information request:

     'List of uk secondary, primary and Behavioural Pupil Refereral Units information' (Department for Education via WhatDoTheyKnow, 27/02/2012)

     http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_of_uk_secondary_primary_and#incoming-258883

The list is about 97% complete (some personal e-mail addresses have been redacted).

However as this goes beyond the information available from EduBase we cannot assume that the Open Government Licence applies. Use of the e-mail list to contact schools en masse may be a breach of intellectual property rights in the data.

The list is about 97% complete (some personal e-mail addresses have been redacted).  _

However as this goes beyond the information available from EduBase we cannot assume that the Open Government Licence applies. Use of the e-mail list to contact schools en masse may be a breach of intellectual property rights in the data.

This is really useful.  Thanks very much.