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School Workforce Census (SWF)

News

3 June 2009
Updated guidance notes and FAQs have now been published. A newsletter has also been produced to outline the main changes and clarifications in version 6.0 of the guidance notes.
18 May 2009
The CSV to XML conversion tool for the summer 2009 pilot is now available from the CSV to XML conversion tool webpage.

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Previous news

About the SWF

Data on the school workforce is currently collected from a variety of sources, mostly at school aggregate level, and does not provide a comprehensive view of the employment situation in schools, particularly in relation to support staff. The SWF will consist of individual-level records for all staff employed in schools (except occasional staff who have been in school for less than a month and support staff not employed by the school or LA) and will for the first time enable the Department and LAs to conduct detailed analyses of school staffing to inform policy on a wide range of recruitment, retention and staff-utilisation issues.

This is a complex data collection, with data for an LA potentially coming from several different sources. Thirty-four LAs are therefore participating in pilots during 2008 and the remaining LAs will do so during 2009. If the pilots are successful, national rollout will take place in January 2010.

If you have any questions about the content of these web pages or the SWF, email the DSG Helpdesk or call on 01325 392626.

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