The instructions on this page were different in the following release(s):
3.86 | 3.85 | 3.84 | 3.82 | 3.81 | 3.80.100 | 3.80 

Supported Versions

School Census

Release Notes 3.86
Statutory - School Census 2025/2026 Return (England Specific)

Users are able to import school census 2025 Autumn, 2026 Spring and 2026 Summer terms collections as follows:

Autumn census

• census date – 3 October 2025
• return date – 29 October 2025

Spring census

• census date – 15 January 2026
• return date – 11 February 2026

Summer census

• census date – 21 May 2026
• return date – 17 June 2026

EOTAS

Release Notes 3.87
Statutory Wales - EOTAS Census

This release supports the changes to the EOTAS (Educated Other Than At School) Census 2026 return.

• The census date is January 20th 2026.

After the generation of the EOTAS Census, the generated data is validated against the WG provided XSD schema files. This is to validate the census generated data so that the correct data is retrieved in the 2026 EOTAS Census file and sent to WG COLLECT.

PLASC Annual Census

Release Notes 3.87
Statutory Wales - PLASC Annual Census

The 2026 Annual census file can be imported via the Welsh Census FT-26 import specification with a reference date of 20th January 2026.

PLASC Attendance Census

Release Notes 3.85
Statutory Wales - PLASC Attendance Return

The 2025 Attendance census file can be imported via the Welsh Census FT-25 import specification with a reference date of:

• Secondary (ATS): 2025-05-23
• Primary school (ATP): 2025-07-21

PLASC Post 16 Census

Release Note for Summer 2024 (3.83)

The 2024 Annual census file can be imported via the Welsh Census FT-24 import specification with a reference date of 31st July 2024.

ADT/ALT/APT/ASL

Release Note for Summer 2024 (3.83)

The file version for 2024/2025 is 21.0.

ATF

Release Note for Summer 2024 (3.83)

The file version for 2024/2025 is 21.0. 

The file version and year can be set from Administration > System Administration > System Defaults:

• ATFILEVER
• ATFILEYEAR