Blogs & Updates
Prior Attainment Banding (Advice from ASCL)
May 23 2019
In the absence of official guidance from the DfE around the Prior Attainment Banding information for cohorts with scaled scores, ASCL have provided a suggested course of action.
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DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
April 11 2019
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded.
One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...
Migrate your Secure Access account to DfE Sign-in
January 11 2019
It has been brought to our attention that number of schools are having issues with logging in to DfE secure access.
As the site has been migrated to DfE Sign-in you will need to do this before you u...
School census 2018 to 2019
January 09 2019
Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post.
The DfE has decide...
School census 2018 to 2019
December 04 2018
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality.
Therefore un...
Autumn School Census 2018
October 29 2018
We are sharing the following information that has been released from the DfE.
Update No 2 from the DfE
Purpose
The purpose of this note is to provide school census contacts with an update on th...
SIMS Summer Census guidance
April 28 2017
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017
Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return.
Preparing for th...
Spring Census 2017 - COLLECT issue resolved
January 20 2017
Further to our blog post yesterday afternoon we can confirm that the DfE have fixed the issue affecting Census file uploads to COLLECT.
Please contact us if you require any assistance with your Sp...
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
January 19 2017
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT.
We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
Children Missing Education - New statutory guidance from the DfE
November 03 2016
On 1st September 2016, new statutory procedures were introduced by the DfE with regard to Children Missing Education.
The DfE Children Missing Education statutory guidance document states that:
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