Guidance

Alternative provision census: technical specification

Business and technical specification for local authorities and software suppliers to prepare for the alternative provision census 2025.

From:
Department for Education
Published
28 June 2024
Last updated
10 September 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Alternative provision census 2025: technical specification

PDF, 678 KB, 38 pages

Alternative provision census 2025: validation rules

ODS, 25.225.4 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the alternative provision census.

It is for:

  • suppliers of software for school and local authority management information systems (MIS)
  • local authority users of MIS software

The specification describes:

  • what data local authorities should supply
  • how to structure the data in XML

You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and we use in our data collections.

Previous specifications are available on the UK Government Web Archive:

Updates to this page

Published 28 June 2024
Last updated 10 September 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated 'Alternative provision census 2025: validation rules'.

  2. First published.

Sign up for emails or print this page