Children in need census 2021 to 2022: specification
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2021 to 2022 children in need census.
Documents
Children in need census 2021 to 2022: business and technical specification
Ref: DfE-00201-2020PDF, 494KB, 36 pages
Children in need census 2021 to 2022: validation rules
ODS, 17.4KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Children in need census 2021 to 2022: validation rules
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 27.5KB
Details
This is technical information about submitting data for the children in need census for the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
It is for:
- suppliers of software for local authority management information systems (MIS)
- users of local authority MIS software
It explains:
- changes to the previous year’s census collection
- what data local authorities should supply at child level
- how to structure the data in XML
- how to check the data against the validation rules
Published 6 November 2020
Last updated 26 March 2021 + show all updates
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Added updated Children in need census 2021 to 2022: validation rules.
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Validation rules spreadsheet updated: amended rule 1530 to include local authority codes 838 and 839.
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First published.
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