Staff record 2023/24 - Notification log
This document summarises all communications associated with the 2023/24 Staff record. Please refer to the revision history document for full technical list of changes to the specifications.
HESA issue regular communications during the life of a collection:
- Circulars: announcements to interested parties concerning or issues relating to the collection. Circulars are always made available on the HESA website for later reference, and emailed out to the mailgroup for the collection.
- Coding manual release overviews: these document iterative changes to the technical documentation that define the form of the data to be submitted, as well as being a place to host resources associated with collecting that data.
2024-03-27 Coding manual release - Version 1.3
Version 1.3 of the coding manual includes:
- Release of the documentation detailing the single pay spine under the 'further guidance' section of the coding manual.
- Addition of the HESA XML Data Entry Tool to the coding manual.
- Addition of the documentation for How to use the HESA XML Data Entry Tool to the coding manual.
- Addition of the amalgamation tool to the coding manual.
2024-02-28 Coding manual release - Version 1.2
Version 1.2 of the coding manual includes:
- The support guides have been added under the 'New to HESA or having problems?' section.
- Release of the documentation detailing the file structures for downloadable files.
2024-02-14 Coding manual release - Version 1.1
Version 1.1 of the coding manual includes:
- Release of the data collection schedule under 'Overview'.
- The guidance for the data collection schedule has been updated under the 'Commit' section.
- Label for valid entry 102 has been updated for Person.ETHNIC.
2023-11-08 Coding manual release - Version 1.0
Version 1.0 of the coding manual includes the first release of documentation for the Staff record 2023/24. This includes the schema, field specifications and guidance.
Changes in this release include:
- The timeline of the releases for the Coding Manual has been updated.
- Removal of Activity.ACTSOC from collection.
- Addition of Activity.ACTSOC2020 to the collection
- Guidance on coverage of the record updated to remove additional guidance of SOC2010
- Valid entries updated for Activity.ACTSOC2020, Contract.RESCON, Person.LOCLEAVE & Person.PREVHEI
- Guidance has been updated for Activity.ACTSOC2020 & Contract.RESCON.
- Coverage has been updated for Contract.ACEMPFUN, Person.ACTLEAVE, Person.HQHELD, Person.LOCLEAVE, Person.PREVEMP & Person.PREVHEI.
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