Dear Colleagues
Fileset 1904 has been released to all schools via SOLUS3 and is available to download on our customer portal (my.schoolicts.co.uk). We advise all English schools to run census with this fileset as it contains the latest version of the DFE validation and summary report files.
Fileset 1904 (England)
This fileset will provide the following changes compared to Fileset 1903.
Attendance Collection 2021 (Maintained Schools in Wales) Cancelled by the WG.
CES Census 2021 (Catholic Schools in England and Wales) No change.
DENI Returns 2020 (Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland) No change.
NDC 2021 (Maintained Schools in Wales) Cancelled by the WG.
PLASC 2021 (Maintained Schools in Wales) No change.
These files are suitable for authorising this return in the unlikely situation where a school hasn’t already had their return accepted by the WG.
Post-16 Return 2021 (Maintained Schools in Wales) No change.
These files are suitable for authorising this return.
School Census Autumn 2021 (State Schools in England)
- Version 2122.1.1 of the DfE validation files
- Version 2122.1.1 of the DfE summary report files
- SIMS resolutions file – updated to take account of the two new validations rules introduces in version 2122.1.1 of the DfE validation files.
- SIMS XML content file – updated to ensure that that the following four and only the following four prior attainment tags are provided in the census return for pupils who left the school during academic year 2020/21, when being taught in year 12 or above.
- Prior attainment in Maths GCSE achieved when taught in year 11.
- Prior attainment in English GCSE achieved when taught in year 11.
- Highest prior attainment achieved the previous year for Maths GCSE.
- Highest prior attainment achieved the previous year for English GCSE.
These files are suitable for authorising this return in all schools, including schools with pupils taught in year 12 and above.
School Census Spring 2021 (State Schools in England) No change.
School Census Summer 2021 (State Schools in England) No change.
School Workforce Census 2021 (State Schools in England) No change.
These files are suitable for authorising this return.
SWAC 2021 (Maintained Schools in Wales) No change.
These files are suitable for authorising this return.
Other No change.
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