Statutory Summer School Census
The final statutory school census return of the 2020/21 academic year will take place on Thursday 20th May. Deadline for submission to the Local Authority (LA) is Friday 21st May.
Early Years
On 18 March the DFE announced that they are temporarily varying their approach to funding local authorities for the early years entitlements this financial year to give LAs and providers more certainty over their funding income. For maintained settings, they intend to use the termly data from the 2021 summer term (and the 2021 autumn term) school census to determine the early years block funding allocation for three and four year olds in school nurseries, maintained nursery schools and academies.
It is vitally important that you are satisfied with the accuracy of your schools’ return before uploading it to the LA, and that it is returned by the prescribed deadline.
Prior to each census, the ICT Development Service (MIDAS) up-load census documentation to the Warwickshire Learning Platform (WeLearn365) which can be found at: http://bit.ly/midaspages and on the download site http://wsd.we-learn.com/downloads. These will assist you in preparing and running your census returns.
If you have any technical queries regarding the SIMS system and generating the return, please contact the ICT Development Service Desk on 01926 414100.
If you have any other questions about this data collection, please contact Michelle Ali, Business Intelligence on 01926 742169 or by e-mail businessintelligence@warwickshire.gov.uk