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Information for Hertfordshire Schools

What is School Census?	Known Issues		Primary School Downloads
	School Census Nursery, Primary and Special Schools		Nursery School Downloads
Go to: Secondary School Census Page	Key Dates	First Language Ethnicity	Special School Downloads

Key Dates

School Census Dates

Spring 2012 Thursday 19th January 2012

What is School Census

The submission of a School Census return, including a set of named pupil records, is a statutory requirement on schools under section 537A of the Education Act 1996. The reason for putting School Census on a statutory basis is only partly to help ensure compliance by schools. It also means that schools do not need to obtain parental or pupil consent to the provision of information and schools are protected from any legal challenge that they are breaching a duty of confidence to pupils.

School Census

In order to incorporate termly surveys, ie Attendance and Exclusions, it is necessary to collect data three times a year in a Spring (January), Spring (May) and Spring (October) Census. Exclusions and attendance data are used to monitor schools’ performance in these areas and, to enable any necessary timely interventions to be made, must be collected and reported on a termly basis.

These are all data items that a well run school would be expected to keep up to date on an event driven basis and so their collection should not be an additional burden to schools. Different modules will be collected in each Census - see Section 2.2 for what will be collected when. Your school’s MIS software will be able to extract from your MIS the relevant data items for each census.

Revised DfE files for School Census

Will be added if and when they become available.

Downloads for Primary Schools

Preparation for Spring School Census Primary

• Acrobat pdf, 1.8mb/52 pages, 20/12/2011, s1229_school_census_2012_primary.pdf

School Census Reports

• RptDef, 141kb, 14/04/2009, school_census.Rpt.Def

School Census Errors and Resolutions

• Acrobat pdf, 341kb/45 pages, 20/12/2011, errors_and_resolutions.pdf

DCSF Census Preparation and Guidance

• Acrobat pdf, 715kb/75 pages, 20/12/2011, dfe_primary_schools_census_2012_guidance.pdf

Downloads for Nursery Schools

Preparation for Spring School Census Nursery

• Acrobat pdf, 1.3mb/40 pages, 20/12/2011, s1231_school_census_2012_nursery.pdf

School Census Reports

• RepDef, 141kb, 14/04/2009, school_census.Rpt.Def

School Census Errors and Resolutions

• Acrobat pdf, 341kb/45 pages, 20/12/2011, errors_and_resolutions.pdf

DCSF Census Preparation and Guidance

• Acrobat pdf, 372mb/49 pages, 20/12/2011, dfe_nursery_schools_census_2012_guidance.pdf

Downloads for Special Schools

Preparation for Spring School Census Special

• Acrobat pdf, 1.7mb/52 pages, 20/12/2011, s1230_school_census_2011_special.pdf

School Census Reports

• RepDef, 141kb, 14/04/2009, school_census.Rpt.Def

School Census Errors and Resolutions

• Acrobat pdf, 341kb/45 pages, 20/12/2011, errors_and_resolutions.pdf

DCSF Census Preparation and Guidance

• Acrobat pdf, 596kb/69 pages, 20/12/2011, dfe_special_schools_census_2012_guidance.pdf

Known Issues

Will be added if and when they become available.