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Guidance: Children looked after return 2024 to 2025: technical specifications

Department For Education

April 19
15:46 2024

This is technical information about submitting and validating data for the children looked after data return (also known as SSDA903) for the year 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

It is for:

  • suppliers creating management information software (MIS) for local authorities
  • users of local authority MIS software

The information includes:

  • a summary of the data items we collect in the return
  • an explanation of formats for submitting the data
  • a list of validation checks applied to the data return

A guide for local authorities, with detailed explanations of what information to include for each data item, is also available.

Published 9 October 2023
Last updated 19 April 2024 +show all updates
  1. Updated 'Children looked after return 2024 to 2025: validation rules'.

  2. First published.

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