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Guidance: School workforce census: guides

Department For Education

November 15
13:15 2024

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These guides are to help schools and local authorities:

  • understand the purpose of the census
  • prepare for the census
  • complete their census returns
  • understand the minimum notes needing to be added in the case of validation queries

The guide for school-employed staff is for:

  • schools and nurseries maintained by the local authority
  • special schools maintained by the local authority (schools for children with special educational needs or disabilities)
  • city technology colleges
  • academies
  • free schools
  • pupil referral units (these provide education for children who cant go to a mainstream school)
  • local authority childrens services

The guide for centrally employed staff explains how local authorities who employ school staff centrally can submit school workforce census data.

More guidance on submitting data for the school workforce census is available.

Updates to this page

Published 24 August 2020
Last updated 15 November 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated 'Centrally employed staff: guide' .

  2. Updated 'Centrally employed staff: guide' for 2024.

  3. Updated 'School employed staff: guide' and 'School workforce minimum notepad entries: guide'.

  4. Added 'School workforce minimum notepad entries: guide'.

  5. 'Centrally employed staff: guide' was updated.

  6. Replaced 'School employed staff: guide' with the 2023 collection. Changes since 2022 are listed in section 1 of the guide.

  7. Added 'Centrally employed staff: guide'.

  8. First published.

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