Guidance: Special educational needs person level survey: technical specification

Department For Education

February 15

10:59 2024

The technical specification should be used if you are:

The specification contains:

a description of whatlocal authorities should supply atlocal authority and person level
how to structure the data in XML
how to check the data against the validation rules

You should also read thecommon basic data set. This defines common data items that we use in our data collections.

Published 26 August 2022
Last updated 15 February 2024 +show all updates

15 February 2024
'Special educational needs person level technical specification 2025' has been updated. Changes are described in the version history.
12 January 2024
'Special educational needs person level survey 2024: validation rules' has been updated. Changes are described in the version history.
18 December 2023
Added 'Special educational needs person level survey 2025: validation rules' and 'Special educational needs person level technical specification 2025' documents.
9 November 2023
'Special educational needs person level technical specification 2024' has been updated. Changes are described in the version history.
14 June 2023
Added the 2024 special educational needs person level survey validation rules and technical specification.
16 January 2023
'Special educational needs person level survey 2023: validation rules' has been updated. Changes are described in the version history.
28 December 2022
'2023 SEN2 person level Annex A validation rules v1.3' has been added, with changes made for v1.2 viewable in the version history.
14 October 2022
The special educational needs person level technical specifications and validation rules for SEN2 have been updated for 2023.
26 August 2022
First published.