Guidance

Alternative provision census 2019: technical specification

Business and technical specification for local authorities and software suppliers to prepare for the alternative provision census 2019.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 30 May 2018
• Last updated: 17 December 2018 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 31 July 2019

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/alternative-provision-census-2019-technical-specification

Applies to England

Documents

Alternative provision census 2019: business and technical specification

Ref: DFE-00171-2018

PDF, 751 KB, 34 pages

Alternative provision census 2019: validation rules

ODS, 27.7 KB

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Alternative provision census 2019: validation rules

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 212 KB

Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the alternative provision census 2019.

It’s 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

Software suppliers should use the list of validation rules so that local authorities can validate the data they submit.

You should also read the common basic data set (CBDS). This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

Published 30 May 2018
Last updated 17 December 2018 + show all updates

1. 17 December 2018

   Updated the validation rules. The document history describes the changes.

2. 30 October 2018

   Added updated version of 'Alternative provision census 2019: business and technical specification'.

3. 27 July 2018

   Added updated version of the validation rules document.

4. 23 July 2018

   Updated the 'Business and technical specification'. The document's version history describes the changes.

5. 13 June 2018

   Replaced the validation rules spreadsheet with an updated version.

6. 30 May 2018

   First published.