Guidance

School workforce census 2024: technical information

Information on the scope and business rationale of the school workforce census 2024.

Applies to England

Documents

School workforce validation rules 2024

Details

These documents give technical information about submitting data for the 2024 school workforce census. They describe the data items for collection in the census.

The document is for software suppliers and users of:

  • school management information systems (MIS)
  • local authority HR and payroll systems

Schools can use the summary report to check the accuracy of their census data before sending it to their local authority or to us.

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

More guidance on submitting data for the school workforce census is available.

Updates to this page

Published 14 April 2022
Last updated 25 June 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added 'School workforce validation rules: 2024'.

  2. Updated 'School workforce census 2023: business and technical specification to 'School workforce census 2024: business and technical specification'. Updated dates to reflect 2024. Removed 'School Workforce Validation Rules 2023'.

  3. Added 'School Workforce Validation Rules 2023'.

  4. 'School workforce census 2023: business and technical specification' was added.

  5. First published.

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