School and pupil census

New data items

• No new data items.

Existing data items

• Data item N00763 (Learner Funding and Monitoring (FAM) Type) - the linking code set CS 130 has been created to record English and maths minimum hours.
• Data item N00764 (Learner Funding and Monitoring (FAM) Type Code) - the linking code set CS117 has been updated to record English and maths minimum hours.
• Expanded hours (N00787) has been amended to allow up to 30 hours to be claimed, following the policy change from September 2025.

Deleted data items

• Information about traineeships will be discontinued from Autumn 2025. 

Further Changes

The DfE has advised that due to an increase in preventable mistakes which impact funding two new validation checks have been introduced.

Report Query

A new query will trigger if the relevant reports for your school phase or type have not been run, the query will trigger until all relevant reports have been run. These COLLECT reports should be run the day following submission and checked to ensure that data submitted is correct, the query will clear the day following all reports being run.

DupUPNRprt Error

This error will trigger if the return has unresolved duplicates which impact funding allocations. The return will not be authorised until the error has been resolved. Please note if the return has been previously authorised and a duplicate UPN is introduced at any point during the 'live' collection the return status will revert to 'approved'

As these reports run overnight, the validation will also be run overnight and therefore the errors will not be apparent until the following day.