Guidance and regulation

Guidance on how to use the view your education data service to access the monitor your school attendance tool.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 October 2023

Guides for schools and local authorities submitting data using COLLECT.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 31 October 2023

How independent schools must collect and submit data for the school-level annual school census (SLASC).

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 16 October 2023

How schools can share daily attendance data.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Suggested privacy notices for schools and local authorities to issue to staff, parents and pupils about the collection of data.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 30 October 2023

Find out about the NCA programme and when school site visits will take place.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 February 2024

Guide for schools and local authorities on unique pupil numbers (UPNs) and a tool for generating them.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 7 June 2019

How schools and local authorities should securely send pupil records and other information using the school to school (S2S) system.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 26 March 2014

How to apply for access to personal data from DfE and its executive agencies.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Find out about the CDC2 programme and when preliminary meetings and school site visits will take place.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 October 2023

An appropriate MIS can have a clear impact on pupil outcomes and staff workload. This table helps you compare systems and choose the right one for your setting.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 20 March 2023

Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2023, spring 2024 and summer 2024.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 1 February 2024

The latest common basic data set (CBDS) and version control log for use by software suppliers developing management information systems.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 28 February 2024

Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2023 to 2024 school census data.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 5 February 2024

How schools and local authorities access and use the S2S secure data transfer system.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 16 February 2022

How local authorities, local-authority-maintained schools, and academies should collect and submit data for the school workforce census.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 July 2023

Information on how the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies share personal data.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Guidance for independent schools to help them with the 2024 school-level annual school census (SLASC).

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 19 October 2023

Guide for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2024 special educational needs survey, commonly known as person level SEN2.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 12 December 2023

Guidance on how to apply to access the LEO standard extract through the Office for National Statistics secure research service.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 April 2024