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Guidance: School-level annual school census: technical information

Department For Education

January 13
09:55 2025

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This is technical information about submitting data for theschool-level annual school census.

Its for:

  • suppliers of software for school management information systems (MIS)
  • users of school MIS software

It applies to registered independent schools only.

The specification describes:

  • what data schools should supply
  • how to structure the data in XML

Software suppliers should use the list of validation rules so that schools can validate the data they submit.

You should also read thecommon basic data set (CBDS). This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

More guidance onsubmitting data for the school-level annual school censusis available.

Updates to this page

Published 12 October 2023
Last updated 13 January 2025 +show all updates
  1. Updated section 2.2 of 'SLASC 2025: independent schools business and technical specification' to correct the survey year in the message header.

  2. Updated 'independent schools business and technical specification' and 'Annex B - independent schools validation rules' for 2025.

  3. Added 'SLASC 2024: Annex B - independent schools validation rules'.

  4. First published.

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