2. Jim Haywood - Product Manager for Statutory Returns School Census Spring 2016 Overview Version 1.0

3. Content Special Educational Needs Childcare Provision EYPP (Early Years Pupil Premium) Eligibility Census Application

4. SIMS Newsfeed School Census Spring 2016 Series 220 Filesets for SIMS Autumn 2015

5. Special Educational Needs Content

7. Date: 23/01/2016

8. Special Educational Need SIMS now stores a history of rankings and School Census is looking at the rankings as they were on Census Day (21/01/2016) rather than as they are today (23/01/2016)

9. Special Educational Need SIMS now stores a history of rankings and School Census is looking at the rankings as they were on Census Day (21/01/2016) rather than as they are today (23/01/2016)

10. Date: Census Day

11. Childcare provision Content

12. Childcare provision Moved from its temporary “home” in School Census to its permanent “home” in student details, so that the information is available throughout the year and not just on Census Day

13. Childcare provision In the majority of cases you will see what you entered for the Summer Census, but the DfE has made some small changes to the questions, so we can’t guarantee this for all cases. Please check the information before it is used by the Spring Census.

14. Childcare provision Enhanced so that schools are less likely to enter information that isn’t needed for specific types of childcare CR

15. Childcare Provision Enhanced so that schools are less likely to enter information that isn’t needed for specific types of childcare CR

16. Childcare provision Enhanced so that schools are less likely to enter information that isn’t needed for specific types of childcare CR

17. Childcare provision The childcare provision information is displayed in the Spring Census and can be modified via clicking ‘edit’

18. EYPP (Early Years Pupil Premium) Eligibility Content

19. EYPP eligibility The menu route previously named Tools | Statutory Return Tools | Update Hours for Early Years has changed to Tools | Statutory Return Tools | Update Early Years

20. EYPP eligibility Columns named Basis for EYPP eligibility and In Care have been added. The In Care column is read-only.

21. EYPP eligibility There are five choices for EYPP eligibility (NB: Some pupils may appear even though they are our of scope by age for EYPP eligibility, but any EYPP eligibility information for such pupils will be ignored by the Spring Census)

22. Census Application Content

23. Census Application Basic Details panel of Routines | Statutory Return | School Census

24. Census Application Collection of class information operates in the same way as for 2015 and takes account of all through schools, multiple timetables and alternative curriculum (if required) Reg Classes

25. Census Application Early Years panel in Routines | Statutory Returns | School Census has been modified in line with Tools | Statutory Return Tools | Update Early Years (NB: EYPP eligibility column will not be displayed for middle deemed primary, middle deemed secondary or secondary schools)

26. Census Application An Early Years Report has been added to the detail reports in Routines | Statutory Returns | School Census EYPP Pupils:

27. Census Application General detail report in Routines | Statutory Returns | School Census has been extended to include a table for Childcare Provision

28. Census Application Brand new academy with new DfE Number no longer has to indicated when the Establishment Number and URN changed

29. Census Application Failure to Create XML Return File doubledOne reason for Create failing is that collecting the data via a SQL query can take longer than we allowed. With this in mind we have doubled the time allowed for collecting the data. We believe that one of the other main reasons for Create failing is membership issues, which can often be resolved by running Tools | Validate Memberships.

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