School census and school workforce census

• Census dates

  School Census

  • Autumn 2020: Census date: 01 October 2020 (return by 06 October 2020)
  • Spring 2021: Census date: 21 January 2021 (return by 26 January 2021)
  • Summer 2021: Census date: 20 May 2021 (return by 25 May 2021) 

  School workforce census

  • Autumn 2020: Awaiting decision from the Department for Education as to whether the collection will take place

• Latest

  School census

  • School Census Advance Notice of Changes – 2020/21 academic year
  • School Census Bulletin – Autumn 2020
  • For latest information regarding school census please see the Scomis website.

  School workforce census

  • Latest communications to Schools

• Guidance notes

  School census

  LA maintained schools will be sent the quick guide from the Education Information Team along with a checklist for the upcoming census return. For further information please use the following links:

  • Census guidance from Scomis
  • GOV.UK – complete the school census

  School workforce census

  • Devon guidance for school workforce census 2019
  • Schools checklist for workforce census
  • Federated schools checklist for workforce census
  • School workforce census FAQs
  • Instructions on running credibility reports
  • DfE acceptable notes for school workforce census

• Pupil forecasts

  Please note: the Pupil Forecast Sheets are no longer required.  School Finance use the school census numbers on roll and the School Forecast Module to support them in their work. The School Forecast Module can be accessed by the following link;

  • Forecast Module: All maintained Primary and Secondary Schools in Devon

• Additional guidance and templates

  Additional guidance notes

  • Data protection: Privacy notices for schools
  • Department for Education guidance on data sharing, privacy notices and data security
  • Childcare Provision – Department for Education guidance
  • Guide to Pupil Premium for Devon Maintained Schools
  • Service children pupil premium – MOD personnel categories
  • Pupil premium imports – sims users
  • Free school meal/UIFSM information on school census
  • School census: notepad entries for COLLECT

  SIMS notes

  • Bulk update
  • Ethnicity codes
  • Backdating history on individual pupils’

  Templates

  • Calculating group sizes for leadership pay ranges
  • *S11/1 Data collection on admission to school: Pupil information, S11/2 data collection on admission to school:contacts

  *The S11 admission form is a sample form which captures information required for the school census and other information that might be relevant to schools. It is not a mandatory form that schools must use, schools can produce their own admission form, or amend the sample form as they consider necessary.

  • Template for Primary Classes
  • Template for Secondary Classes

• School census statistics

  • School census data from previous years