Children in need census 2018 to 2019: specification
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2018 to 2019 children in need census.
Documents
Children in need census 2018 to 2019: business and technical specification
PDF, 283KB, 33 pages
Children in need census 2018 to 2019: validation rules
ODS, 16KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Children in need census 2018 to 2019: validation rules
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 22.7KB
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Details
This is technical information about submitting data for the children in need census for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019.
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 1 November 2017
Last updated 19 September 2018 + show all updates
- Updated the validation rules documents to include additional rules and amendments.
- Updated ‘Children in need census 2018 to 2019: validation rules’
- First published.
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