⚠School Workforce Census – Thursday 6th November⚠
This is a reminder that the School Workforce Census is Thursday 6th November, with the COLLECT deadline to return the data to the Department for Education (DfE) being Friday 5th December. Please check with your Local Authority as you may be required to submit the data earlier.
Customer Support
Our help desk will be here to support you throughout the collection period. You can call us directly if you need immediate assistance or log a ticket via the customer portal with details of your query. To help us resolve your issue quickly, please include any relevant query or error numbers when submitting your request.
School ICT customer portal https://my.www.schoolicts.co.uk/
Consultancy Services – Census Support – Let us complete the census for you!
Flexible, expert-led support for statutory returns – our Data Services package is a flexible, remote solution designed to support schools through key statutory returns and annual MIS procedures. Whether you need help with one return or all of them, we work alongside your team to ensure data is clean, complete, and submitted correctly saving valuable staff time and ensuring compliance. Reach out today via helpdesk@Schoolicts.co.uk for more information
School Workforce Census (Autumn)
- Help completing staff contracts, roles, and pay data
- Error resolution and validation support
- Staff absence checking
- Pay scale and allowance updates
Scheduled Training
If this is your first time completing the School Workforce Census, or your first time doing it in a new MIS, we strongly recommend booking onto one of our training sessions. Our expert-led training is designed to give you confidence, avoid common mistakes, and ensure your data is accurate and compliant.
If the session you’d like is fully booked, please get in touch and we’ll add you to the waiting list. Where there’s high demand, we’ll also release extra training dates so no one misses out.
Bromcom Personnel – Monday 13th October 1pm-4:00pm
Bromcom School Workforce Census – School ICT – Thursday 16th October 1:00pm-4:00pm
Arbor Personnel – Tuesday 14th October 9.30am-12.30pm
Arbor School Workforce Census – School ICT – Friday 17th October 9:30am-12:30pm
SIMS Personnel – Distance Learning
SIMS School Workforce Census – School ICT – Thursday 16th October 9:30am-12:30pm
SIMS School Workforce Census – School ICT – Tuesday 21st October 9:30am-12:30pm
The full Autumn Term training schedules can be found using the below links: –
- Arbor Courses: Arbor Training Autumn Term 2025
- Bromcom Courses: Bromcom Training Autumn Term 2025
- SIMS Courses: SIMS Training Autumn Term 2025
DfE Guidance
We strongly advise downloading the DfE guidance for clarification on who should and who should not be included in the census. This can be downloaded from the below link:
Key Dates for the School Workforce Census
- Census date: 06/11/2025
- Continuous contracts collected from 01/09/2024 to 06/11/2025
- Absences collected from 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025
- For schools that submit data to COLLECT the deadline is Friday 5th December 2025. Local authority schools will need to check with their LA for their return deadlines.
Updates to the School Workforce Census for 2025
The main change is that additional validation rules have been added to encourage the return of data on disability and ethnicity.
For the 2025 census a new validation rule has been added. Where staff have been employed for more than 3 months, a query will be raised if their disability status is still listed as ‘information not yet obtained’. Staff have an absolute right to not answer this question, in which case the answer should be recorded as ‘Refused’ and no query will be raised. Schools should therefore work to collect this information before the census deadline and record this.
School ICT customer portal https://my.www.schoolicts.co.uk/
School ICT customer portal links – please select the relevant link below for MIS specific documentation and webinar recording.
Useful links for further DfE guidance : –
