What you need to know : New information required for this years Spring School Census
SAVE THE DATE :
19th January 2023 : School Census Spring 2023
23rd February 2023 : Submission deadline (unless otherwise stated by LA)
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What is the School Census?
All state funded schools within England have to provide data and statistics to the DfE 3 times a year in what is called the Census, this is a statutory requirement.
This enables national statistics to be produced, and also affects your schools funding.
Note: Stand alone nursery or post-16 schools in England, along with Isle of Man schools are not required to do this.
Your MIS and the School Census
Most MIS allow for dry runs of your School Census prior to submission
- Arbor's opened on 5th Jan 2023
This allows for you to "unofficially" run your Census and resolve any issues prior to the day.
Arbor also allows you to resolve any queries or errors in batches (saving a lot of time) and run the dry run census option multiple times in advance giving you the cleanest data possible.
-19th January 2023 is the School Spring Census 2023 - this is the day that the snap shot of your schools data will be regarding.
- 15th February 2023 DEADLINE for the Census submission (unless otherwise stated by your local authority)
What's new with the 2023 School Census?
There are a number of areas that now require reporting on in the Spring 2023 School Census:
1) Young Carers
Students who are young carers need to be recorded, along with whether the school or a parent / guardian identified if the student was a young carer.
This can be done within the student profile on Arbor - click here for details of how. For SIMS Census How to guides please see here.
2) Alternative Provision Placements (APP)
Students who have APP at other establishments will need details of who and where the APP provider are. As some students have multiple placements, both full and part time at multiple locations, all of this will need to be recorded for the Census period.
Click here for how to do this in Arbor.
For SIMS Census How To guides please see here.
3) (Optional) Weekly Open Hours for Schools
Starting in this Census, you can optionally provide the details of your open hours for your school students attendance. However this is not a requirement for the Census at this time.
If this is something that interests you, here is the how to for Arbor.
For SIMS Census How to guides please see here.
4) PRU or Alternative Provision Only
PRU's and Alternative provisions will need to include reporting on if they have provision for the following moving forward: Child Mothers, Teenage Mothers' placements, and if there are childcare facilities.
See here for how in Arbor.
For SIMS Census How to guides please see here.
The DfE - Department for Education Guidance
The DfE are in charge of the Census and have provided great guidance and overall information regarding completing the census, error codes, codes in general and how to's.
Check out here for a link to the right area of their website.
Dry Run, Census Day and Submission
What now?
1) Dry Run - Prepare your data, Watch the dry run webinar (Arbor), Complete the Preparation checklist, Run a Dry Run, Resolve errors in batches and regenerate Dry Run as much as needed.
2) Census Day - Run your Census Day Return, Add in your on-the-day information.
3) Submission - Check your Census Return, Download the Census to your computer, Upload Census to COLLECT, Complete the Completion checklist.
For SIMS Census How to guides please see here.
Outstanding Queries
When providing the Census to COLLECT, you will need to provided explanations for any existing queries. Which the DfE has provided a handy dandy COLLECT guide for,
here is the link.
Note: Remember to add these explanations when uploading to COLLECT.
How do I do the Census?
We here at Swyft Education like to provide you with the best opportunity to be empowered to do the Census yourself, and provide a number of resources below for you.
1) Here is a wonderful article by Arbor taking you through the process.
2) Receive training from our dedicated team on Census completion.
3) We can do it for you - not to mention any other returns you may need moving forward.
We offer this service whether you are a current or new customer!
Contact us today and see how we can help you.
Thanks for reading,
Remember Keep it Shiny & Do the Do!
Stay safe and well, till next time. Elle
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