Guidance
Data collection maintenance schedule
Details of individualised learner record (ILR) data collection periods, proposed essential maintenance windows and planned learning aims reference data updates.
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During the maintenance windows, the Submit learner data service will be unavailable.
The data collection facilities are guaranteed to be open between the ILR guaranteed collection availability dates shown, but if our maintenance finishes earlier, we’ll open them as soon as possible.
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Published 9 January 2015
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23 January 2026
Added 'Data collections maintenance schedule for 2026 to 2027'.
19 February 2025
Added 'Data collections maintenance schedule for 2025 to 2026'.
28 March 2024
Updated the RO3 scheduled dates for October 2024 in 'Data collections maintenance schedule for 2024 to 2025'.
22 February 2024
Data collections maintenance schedule for 2024 to 2025 has been added.
6 October 2023
We've updated the dates for R03 in the data collections maintenance schedule for 2023 to 2024.
The opening of Submit learner data to collect data in R03 for 2023 to 2024 has been delayed by one week, so will open on the 20 October and not the 13 October as previously listed.
3 April 2023
We have published the data collections maintenance schedule for 2023 to 2024.
24 March 2022
We have published the data collection maintenance schedule for 2022 to 2023.
7 June 2021
We have updated the data collection maintenance schedule for 2021 to 2022, with the references of Learning Aims Reference Data (LARS) being replaced by Find a Learning Aim (FALA).
13 May 2021
We have published the data collection maintenance schedule for 2021 to 2022.
7 July 2020
We have updated the data collection maintenance schedule for 2020 to 2021 to change the LARS 2 date for R05, which is now Wednesday 23 Decemebr 2020.
29 June 2020
We have updated the data collection maintenance schedule for 2019 to 2020 with changes to the R13 and R14 collections. We have also published the data collection maintenance schedule for 2020 to 2021.
5 August 2019
We have published the data collection maintenance schedule for 2019 to 2020.
3 January 2019
We've updated the data collection maintenance schedule for 2018 to 2019.
11 July 2018
Updated data collection maintenance schedules
9 May 2018
Updated data collection maintenance schedule 2017 to 2018.
20 July 2017
New file Data collections maintenance schedule 2017 to 2018 uploaded on 20 July 2017.
New version of Data collections maintenance schedule 2016 to 2017 uploaded on 20 July 2017.
24 March 2017
New version of data collection maintenance schedule 2016 to 2017 uploaded on 24 March 2017.
13 December 2016
Revised version of Data collections maintenance schedule 2016/17 uploaded on 13 December 2016.
21 July 2016
Revised data collection maintenance schedule for 2015 to 2016 uploaded on 21 July 2016. Also new data collection maintenance schedule for 2016 to 2017.
23 June 2016
New version of Data Collection Maintenance schedule uploaded on 23 June 2016.
12 January 2016
New version of data collections maintenance schedule uploaded on 12 January 2016.
22 December 2015
new version of Data collections maintenance schedule uploaded on 22 December 2015.
26 November 2015
New version of Data collection maintenance schedule uploaded on 26 November 2015.
6 October 2015
New version of Data Collection Maintenance Schedule uploaded on 06 October 2015.
17 September 2015
New version of Data Collections Maintenance Schedule uploaded on 17 September 2015.
15 September 2015
New version of Data Collections Maintenance Schedule uploaded on 15 September 2015.
17 August 2015
New version of Data Collection Maintenance Schedule uploaded on 17 August 2015.
30 June 2015
New Data Collections Maintenance Schedule uploaded on 30 June 2015.
30 April 2015
New date collection maintenance schedule uploaded on 30 April 2015.
14 April 2015
New version of Data collection maintenance schedule for 2014 to 2015 uploaded on 14 April 2015.
19 February 2015
New data collections maintenance schedule uploaded on 19 February 2015.
20 January 2015
New Data collection maintenance schedule for 2014 to 2015 uploaded on 20 January 2015.
9 January 2015
First published.