Parent Pay Guidance Documents
Preparing for the Workforce Census
Producing the Workforce Census
Changes to the collection of disability and ethnicity data
The DfE has made it clear that schools should be recording both ethnicity and disability information for their workforce members within 100 days (3 months) of those workforce members having joined the school.
The ethnicity aspect of this requirement is unlikely to need much implementing for most schools, but the new disability field was only introduced as blank to SIMS by the SIMS Summer Release 2025 and will need to be fully implemented as soon as possible and before the School Workforce Census 2025 is uploaded to the DfE via COLLECT.
Acceptable: Any of the Disability lookups, including 'Refused', except for 'Information not yet obtained'.
Unacceptable: Blank or 'information not yet obtained'
Acceptable: Any of the Ethnicity lookups, including 'Did not wish to be recorded', except for 'Not obtained'.
Unacceptable: Blank or 'Not obtained'.