Workforce census

[jmak]

With today's school census now done and dusted [emoji51] thoughts move on to workforce census.

 

We use SIMS as our MIS, but don't use it for personnel management as we outsource most functions to a third party. Therefore completing the workforce census usually means manually entering data reported from the third party system.

 

I can't see any reason we *need* to use SIMS. Can anyone point me towards a general set of guidance or requirements?

 

The guidance from our LA is a set of SIMS notes.

[Ditto]

Good job get the census done so quick! We had new pupils join in the last few days and I'll be chasing CTFs no doubt to get a UPN. Re SWF census, for the technical stuff see the following two links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-census-2018-guides

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-census-2018-business-and-technical-specification

 

On thing to note is that it's not purely personnel data.

 

You'll either need to be adept with XML or in theory you I think you can enter it all manually as 'real-time' data. See the following:

 

To be honest, it's not something I'd try - it's one of the functionalities of our MIS that I think is under-valued.

[jmak]

I can't take credit for the census - we have a new and very methodical and organised office administrator. They've now worked in a school for five whole weeks!

 

Thanks for the links - looks like we'll have to use SIMS. Just seems a shame when we already have the information recorded in a system which we use for all other personnel functions.