Arbor Autumn Census 2022 guidance
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Thursday 6th October 2022 is census day but for those of you who can’t wait you can carry out a dry run in Arbor now!
Simply click on the banner at the top of your Arbor screen or follow the route School > Data > Export > Data Returns.
There you can click on School Census and generate Dry Run!
And any other information or error code checking can be done here.
Essential dates this year
Thursday 22nd September is when your Dry Run opens, so you can resolve errors in preparation for census day
Thursday 6th October is census day (when you can add in on-the-day information to resolve any remaining errors)
Wednesday 2nd November is your census submission deadline (unless otherwise advised by your Local Authority)
Arbor are holding some informative webinars for users:
1. Start by working through your School Census Preparation Checklist
2. See our guidance on what’s changed this census, and step by step instructions on preparing your data for census day: Preparing for the school census
3. Join Arbor for their free webinar at 10.15 am today for how to do a Dry Run and check you’re ready for census day. You’ll be able to find the recording on their Help Centre within 24 hours here
Do you have Post-16 students?
If you’re an all-through school, you’ll need to submit details of your students’ Programmes of Study enrolments alongside your census.
You can find our guidance here, plus we’re running a special webinar next week to walk you through how to manage this in Arbor - sign up here.
Census Day: Wednesday 5th October at 13:30pm - Click here to sign up
Before this session: please make sure you have joined or watched back the recording of the Dry Run webinar.
As always SBS are here and ready to help so please do drop us an email misservicedesk@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk or call 0345 222 1551 | Opt 3
Would you like us to do your Autumn Census for you?
Let us take it off your to-do list this month by contacting us. Looking ahead, we can do ALL of this year's returns for you - whether you are already an SBS customer or not!
