Data collection and censuses for schools

School censuses and school-level annual school censuses (SLASC), school capacity surveys, phonics screening checks, key stage 1 and 2 assessments data.

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Guidance and regulation

• Access your school attendance data
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 June 2023
  • Department for Education
• Share your daily school attendance data
  • Detailed guide
  • 7 June 2023
  • Department for Education
• School to school service: how to transfer information
  • Detailed guide
  • 26 March 2014
  • Department for Education
• Unique pupil numbers
  • Guidance
  • 7 June 2019
  • Department for Education
• School workforce census: guide to submitting data
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 July 2023
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Government on track to create one million new school places this decade
  • 28 March 2019
  • Department for Education
  • News story
• Thousands more children on track to become fluent readers
  • 28 September 2017
  • Department for Education
  • News story
• National database of governors
  • 1 July 2016
  • Department for Education
  • News story
• Parents given power of veto on schools’ use of biometric information
  • 15 May 2012
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Parent, pupil and learner panel omnibus surveys for 2022 to 2023
  • 20 July 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Key stage 2 attainment 2023: national headlines
  • 11 July 2023
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• School workforce in England: November 2022
  • 8 June 2023
  • Department for Education
  • National statistics
• School capacity in England: academic year 2021 to 2022
  • 23 March 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Official statistics
• Disability data collection in schools
  • 23 February 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• School registers and national thresholds for legal intervention
  • 29 August 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 29 July 2022

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2023
  • 18 August 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2022
  • 13 April 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Longitudinal education outcomes study: how we use and share data
  • 10 February 2023
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• CO2 monitors: cumulative delivery statistics up to 10 December 2021
  • 16 December 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Common basic data set (CBDS): requests for change (RFC) 2021
  • 24 November 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Standards & Testing Agency

Explore sub-topics

• Alternative provision censuses
• General hospital school censuses
• Key stage 1 and 2 assessments data collection
• Parental responsibility measures attendance censuses
• Phonics screening checks
• School capacity surveys
• School censuses and school-level annual school censuses (SLASC)
• School exclusion reviews
• School preference and admission appeals data collection
• School workforce censuses
• Special educational needs surveys