Guidance

SLASC 2017: technical specification

Technical specification and validation rules describing the requirements for the school-level annual school census (SLASC) 2017.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 11 August 2016
• Last updated: 14 February 2017 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 30 July 2019

These documents are for the 2017 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 2017: business and technical specification, version 1.1

Ref: DFE-00190-2016

PDF, 992 KB, 63 pages

School-level annual school census 2017: validation rules

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 64.6 KB

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Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the school-level annual school census 2017.

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 (CBDS). 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 11 August 2016
Last updated 14 February 2017 + show all updates

1. 14 February 2017

   Updated the validation rules document.

2. 11 August 2016

   First published.