- Census day 16/01/2025
- Return to DfE 12/02/2025
- Attendance collected from start of Autumn term to 31/12/2024 (not
applicable to Nursery schools) - Exclusions collected from 01/04/2024 to 31/12/2024 (not applicable to
Nursery schools) - Alternative Provision Placements collected from 03/10/2024 to 16/01/2025
(not applicable to Nursery schools) - Funding and Monitoring collected from 01/08/2024 to 16/01/2025 (not
applicable to Nursery schools) - Learner Support collected from 01/08/2024 to 16/01/2025 (not
applicable to Nursery or Primary schools) - Free School Meal Eligibility collected from 04/10/2024 to 16/01/2025.
Selected Time
Last digit of your departmental number:
0, 1 or 5 the selected time is one hour after the start of afternoon school
2, 3 or 6 the selected time is one hour after the start of morning school
4, 7, 8 or 9 the selected time is one hour before the end of morning school
SIMS Documentation
- Preparing Primary
- Preparing Secondary
- Producing Primary
- Producing Secondary
- Producing All Through
- Producing PRU
- Producing Special
- Producing Nursery
Fileset 2903
Please follow the instructions in the below video on how to import the fileset:
Arbor Documentation
Bromcom Documentation
ESS advice NOT to finalise return - 15th January:
Advice to NOT finalise Census return until further notice
ESS mades us aware late yesterday (after 5pm on 15th) that the DfE have provided MIS suppliers with a new version of their School Census Spring 2025 specification. They have found that uploading files to COLLECT (which uses this new specification) will trigger validation issues that cannot be resolved without a patch and a new fileset.
Therefore the advice is for schools to NOT finalise their return or upload it to COLLECT until further notice, we will obviously keep you informed of the situation and send another email when the situation is resolved.
The text of the ESS news article is below for your reference, if there is any questions on this please don't hesitate to contact us using our contact details below.
ESS News article:
Updated 15 Jan 17:00 We advise schools NOT to finalise their return until further notice
Please note that the DfE provided MIS suppliers with a new version of their School Census Spring 2025 specification today (15/01/2025) at 16:32.
Obviously, we have not had time to understand the full implications of the changes the DfE has made, but we have already concluded that uploading files to COLLECT will trigger validation issues that cannot be resolved without a patch(es) and a fileset.
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