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Read this - SIMS quickstart guide

Category: SIMS

The quickstart guide is attached to this article. This lists the steps to be followed when completing the Census, together with references to the main guidance where appropriate. Click here see an on...

Read this - Excel quickstart guide

Category: Non SIMS (EXCEL)

The quickstart guide is attached to this article. This lists the steps to be followed when completing the Census, together with references to the main guidance where appropriate. Click here to see an ...

GDPR

Category: Miscellaneous

The annual CES Census is the source of all school data collected by the CES. The census files submitted to the CES consist of aggregate totals. No data on individual pupils or teaching and support sta...

Census upload page unavailable

Category: Miscellaneous

We have experienced a technical problem that caused an internal server error. I am pleased to say that the problem has been resolved and the upload page is now accessible again.  In order to res...

What is my school’s Unique Reference Number (URN)?

Category: Miscellaneous

Please follow these steps if you wish to find your URN, Local Authority Number or Establishment Number:   Go to https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/ and click on "Search for establishments...

SEN codes and categories

Category: SIMS

Capita have supplied the following answer to a question about SEN categories and codes: This area can easily be misunderstood by schools, as the governments have changed the rules in recent years and...

F1016 - No year group assigned to one or more pupils

Category: SIMS

The error code F1016 is generated if there are one or more students with no year group assigned to them. Once these pupils have been assigned a year group it will be necessary to recalculate the censu...

Error: Figures entered cannot exceed Year 11 Pupils on roll on last years CES return

Category: SIMS

Very rarely this error message is generated erroneously when saving or creating and validating a census: Figures entered cannot exceed Year 11 Pupils on roll on last years CES return. To prevent thi...

Inactive Religion Categories

Category: SIMS

When selecting Schools CES Census in Routines->Statutory Returns, you may see an error box saying there are one or more religion codes that do not have an active category. If this happens please se...

F1015 - The totals of pupils by ethnicity and pupils by religion are different

Category: SIMS

F1015 error message is displayed when the total number of pupils when grouped by year group, gender and Catholicity is different to the total number of pupils when grouped by ethnicity. The first thin...

How do I change the effective date of a pupil’s religion?

Category: SIMS

1. Go to the pupil’s Student Details 2. Go to panel 8 (Ethnic / Cultural) 3. Click on the History button in the bottom right corner of the panel 4. Double click on Religion 5. Double click on the oran...

F1014 Error - Missing pupil religion

Category: SIMS

Validation error F1014 usually occurs when one or more students have no religion assigned. These will have ‘-‘ as their religion in the Census student detail report. If one or more pupils have no reli...