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Local authorities must complete the parental responsibility measures attendance census each September or October.

You must submit details of the controls you put in place in the previous academic year to help parents make sure their children attend school, including:

• parenting contracts
• parenting orders
• penalty notices for unauthorised absence
• number of cases youve entered into the attendance case management system

Important dates

Dates for the 2023 census:

• census opens: 8 September 2023
• deadline for submitting data: 20 October 2023

Submit your data

Youll need to:

• register and log in with DfE Sign-in
• use COLLECT to submit your data

Please contact your school or local authority approver, if:

• you want to request a DfE Sign-in username or password so you can access COLLECT
• parental responsibility measures attendance is not on the list of collections you can see in COLLECT

Get help using DfE Sign-in

If you do not know who your approver is, please use the DfE Sign-in request form.

If youve forgotten your password, use DfE Sign-in to reset it. You will need to click Start now and then the Ive forgotten my password link.

Note that well only be able to change the status of your data submission to authorised once youve cleared all errors in the data in COLLECT.

Census documents

The following documents will help you complete the census:

• guide for local authorities
• COLLECT guides

Do you need help?

Submitting data

Please use the service request form if you have any questions about your data. We aim to answer your question within 5 working days.

Feedback

Please use the feedback form if you have any comments about our data collection service, including COLLECT and the helpdesk service.