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How to access your school attendance data through the Monitor your school attendance tool.
How to use the good level of development (GLD) data tool to access the Compare your GLD data report.
Guides for schools and local authorities submitting data using COLLECT.
The information that schools must provide to the Department for Education (DfE).
How independent schools must collect and submit data for the school-level annual school census (SLASC).
How schools and local authorities should securely send pupil records and other information using the school to school (S2S) system.
Guide for schools and local authorities on unique pupil numbers (UPNs) and a tool for generating them.
Guidance for independent schools to help them with the 2026 school-level annual school census (SLASC).
Suggested privacy notices for schools and local authorities to issue to staff, parents and pupils about the collection of data.
Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2025 to 2026 school census data.
How we calculate the contextual GLD scores included in the ‘Compare your GLD data’ reports.
Guidance for schools, academy trusts and local authorities on using the monitor your school attendance tool.
Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2025, spring 2026 and summer 2026.
Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2026 and 2027 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.
Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place.
How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.
The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems.
How local authorities should report data for the annual special educational needs survey, commonly known as SEN2.
How to apply for access to personal data from DfE and its executive agencies.
Find out about the net capacity assessment (NCA) programme, when school site visits will take place and how to read your NCA report.
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