Guidance

SLASC 2020: technical specification

Technical specification and validation rules describing the requirements for the school-level annual school census (SLASC) 2020.

From:
Department for Education
Published
26 June 2019
Last updated
20 February 2020 — See all updates

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This document is for the 2020 school-level annual school census (SLASC). For the current census, visit our guide to submitting data for SLASC.

Applies to England

Documents

School-level annual school census 2020: business and technical specification, version 1.0

Ref: DfE-00131-2019

PDF, 1.09 MB, 45 pages

School-level annual school census 2020: validation rules

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Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the school-level annual school census 2020.

It’s 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 the common basic data set. This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

More guidance on submitting data for the school-level annual school census is available.

Published 26 June 2019
Last updated 20 February 2020 + show all updates

  1. Updated validation rules. Changes are described in the document's version history.

  2. Updated with latest version of the validation rules. Changes are described in the document's version history.

  3. Updated with latest version of the validation rules. Changes are described in the document's version history.

  4. First published.