Alternative provision census 2025: technical specification
Business and technical specification for local authorities and software suppliers to prepare for the alternative provision census 2025.
Applies to England
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This is technical information about submitting data for the alternative provision census.
It is for:
- suppliers of software for school and local authority management information systems (MIS)
- local authority users of MIS software
The specification describes:
- what data local authorities should supply
- how to structure the data in XML
You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and we use in our data collections.
Last updated 24 April 2024 + show all updates
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Updated 'Alternative provision census 2024: technical specification' for 2025.
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Updated 'Alternative provision census 2024: technical specification' and 'Alternative provision census 2024: validation rules' to correct the collection period dates to 20 January 2023 to 18 January 2024 inclusive.
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Updated the 'Alternative provision census 2024: validation rules'.
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Updated the technical specification (v1.1) and validation rules (1.1). The version history lists the changes.
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Added 'Alternative provision census 2024: validation rules'.
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First published.