Management Information Sheet

School Workforce Census Statutory Return For All Schools

MI Sheet TypeInformation
MI Number:37/09
Publication Date:21/02/2009
LA Contact:Louise Hodgson (01603 222352)
Audience:All Headteachers and Governors
Links:http://www.schools.norfolk.gov.uk/page_35.cfm
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/ims/datacollections/swfcpilot/

School Workforce Census Statutory Return For All Schools

School Workforce Census Statutory Return For All Schools

MI sheet 105/08 notified schools of the new statutory DCSF Data Collection, the School Workforce Census.

The School Workforce Census will include information on individuals working in your school, the posts they hold, their contracts and pay, any absences from work, their qualifications and, for high schools only, the subjects and year groups they teach. It comprises different modules of data collected three times a year. As with the School Census, different modules will be collected in each return. Your school's management information (MI) system will be able to extract the relevant data items for each census.

48 Norfolk schools are currently participating in a Pilot Phase for the January and May 2009 returns. As previously stated all Norfolk schools are required to undertake this return in October 2009, before undertaking a statutory return in January 2010.

Some of the data is currently held in schools and some within the local authority (LA) HR systems. This data will need to be amalgamated within your MI system in order to produce the census return. To assist with this process we will be providing you with the HR data held for your school. We shall contact you about this in more detail within the next few weeks.

In preparation for the return, with effect from 1st January 2009 all schools must record all staff absences, be it illness or work related (e.g. training, personnel development, etc) in their school's MI system.

Schools that are not part of the pilot would find it beneficial to do a trial run in May 2009.

Guidance and documentation of what is required can be found on the Norfolk Schools website.

Further detailed information will follow in due course; in the meantime all schools should ensure that the Personnel records in their MI systems are as up to date and comprehensive as possible.

If you have any questions please contact the SWF Census Team on the following:
  		• Keith Sowter tel: 01603 228828
  		• Louise Hodgson tel: 01603 222352
  		• Nigel Peacock tel: 01603 223913

    Or to e-mail us, please contact the IRC Data team.