Guidance on special educational needs person level survey: technical specification

Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities completing returns for the person level 2023 special educational needs survey (SEN2).

From:

Department for Education

SEN2 person level 2023 - technical specification

Ref: DFE-SEN2TS-2022PDF, 471 KB, 27 pages

Special educational needs person level survey 2023: validation rules

ODS, 27.9 KB

Special educational needs person level survey 2023: validation rules

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 50.8 KB

The technical specification should be used if you are:

• responsible for the SEN2 data return
• a supplier of software for local authority (LA) management information systems

The specification contains:

• a description of what LAs should supply at LA and person level
• how to structure the data in XML
• how to check the data against the validation rules

You should also read the common basic data set. This defines common data items that we use in our data collections.