School workforce census: guides

These guides are to help schools and local authorities:

• understand the purpose of the census
• prepare for the census
• complete their census returns

The guide for school-employed staff is for:

• schools and nurseries maintained by the local authority
• special schools maintained by the local authority (schools for children with special educational needs or disabilities)
• city technology colleges
• academies
• free schools
• pupil referral units (these provide education for children who can’t go to a mainstream school)
• local authority children’s services

The guide for centrally employed staff explains how local authorities who employ school staff centrally can submit school workforce census data.

More guidance on submitting data for the school workforce census is available.