PLASCSchool Census 2006

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PLASC/School Census 2006

• Ian Watson and Terry Keane

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Issues

• PLASC/SLASC
• Items
• Readiness
• School Census
• Exclusions
• Absences
• Surveys/collections replaced
• preparation

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PLASC/SLASC

• No major changes for PLASC
• PLASC applies to Nursery, Primary, Middle (deemed
  Primary) and Special Schools
• SLASC for PRUs, General Hospital Schools
• PRUs to provide absence data for Autumn Term 2005

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PLASC readiness
For those using SIMS, will the .net roll out be
completed on time?
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School Census - Exclusions module

• New items
• Exclusion Start Date
• Exclusion Type
• Actual number of sessions excluded from
• Exclusion Reason

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School Census - Exclusions module

• Exclusion Start Date from 1/9/2005
• All exclusions need to be recorded, not just
  permanent exclusions
• Change in definition to reflect the date an
  exclusion starts rather than, in the event of an
  appeal, the date an appeals panel upholds the
  exclusion

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School Census - Exclusions module

• Exclusion Type
• Permanent
• Fixed Period
• Lunchtime
• Actual number of sessions excluded from
• fixed period and lunchtime only
• fixed period half a day is one session
• lunchtime each lunchtime one session

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School Census - Exclusions module
Exclusion reason
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School Census - Attendance module

• New items
• Possible Sessions
• Sessions missed due to Authorised Absence
• Sessions missed due to Unauthorised Absence

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School Census - Attendance module

• Spring Census 06 collect data for Autumn Term 05
• Summer Census 06 collect data for Spring Term 06
• Autumn Census 06 collect data for Summer Term 06
  (up to Spring Bank Holiday) and for academic year
  2005/06

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Surveys replaced

• Dropped immediately
• Gifted and Talented
• Survey to identify the cohort for the Youth
  Cohort Survey

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Surveys replaced

• Last one of
• Exclusions last one for both Primary and
  Secondary Schools in November 05
• September Pupil Count section 3 only for
  Secondary Schools in September 06 will continue
  for schools out of scope of School Census in 06
• Dual-run Contextual Checking for SCATT

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Preparation

• Preparation and Guidance Notes
• draft versions on Teachernet -http//www.teacherne
  t.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id8373
• handbook for data entry not just guidance for
  Census Day

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Preparation

• Fair Processing Notices
• updated template being prepared now
• will be issued to LEAs during the summer
• use of home information for Year 11 pupils to
  replace the Youth Cohort Survey will be
  highlighted
• Schools will need to reissue (to all pupils?)

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Preparation

• More validation on entry
• To ensure compliance with the Common Basic Data
  Set
• Reduce errors that need to be checked when the
  extract is generated

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Preparation

• Ensure new data items understood and populated by
  schools from September 2005
• Pupil Date of Leaving
• Exclusions (including associated In Care and SEN
  data)
• Attendance
• School Characteristics

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PLASC/School Census 2006

• Questions and feedback