I followed up on some concerns expressed about the completion of CESE surveys in general. Lucy Snowball was generous in offering some contextual information.

CESE treats all survey responses confidentially and will not pass them on to any third party, unless required by law.

• They aggregate all responses to protect anonymity, so that individual responses are not identifiable when reporting.
• They may link this survey data to other departmental data and report select aggregated results at Principal Network, School Performance Directorate and/or State level to internal department audiences only.
• They have strict threshold rules to ensure anonymity when reporting at the Principal Network level – they do not report on any Network where less than 10 principals responded (out of a total ~ 20).
• They do not report any information that identifies which principals have or have not responded to the survey.
• Their dedicated survey delivery team will conduct all analysis and reporting for the survey this year, applying all our key data governance learnings.

For example, CESE do not intend on reporting on response rates or demographic information to further anonymise responses. CESE will carefully consider any reporting of questions of sub-groups (eg questions only applicable for secondary principals) at the PN level.