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Initial Teacher Training record 2017/18 (C17053): Annual update - technical specification

Following the recent Notification of Changes for the 2017/18 ITT in-year record, this document contains more of the technical details for the new data items.

School Direct Lead School

Type Field
Short name SDLEAD
Description This field collects the lead school for School Direct trainees
Applicable to England
Coverage All students where Student.ENTRYRTE= 02 or 03 and Student.MODE is not equal to 63 or 64
Notes

This field should contain a Unique Reference Number (URN), as shown on Edubase.

All School Direct trainees should be associated with a lead school.

In some cases, for example where students are self-funded, trainees may not be associated with a lead school. In these cases, you must return 'Not applicable/not available.'

Where the lead school does not have a URN, the below generic codes should be used

 

900000 Establishment outside England and Wales

900010 Not applicable/not available

Reason required All School Direct trainees should be associated with a lead school for the purposes of data collection and funding.
Part of

Student

Field Length 6
Minimum occurrences 0
Maximum occurrences 1

School Direct Employing School

Type Field
Short name SDEMPLOY
Description This field collects the employing school for School Direct salaried trainees
Applicable to England
Coverage All students where Student.ENTRYRTE=03 and Student.MODE is not equal to 63 or 64
Notes

This field should contain a Unique Reference Number (URN), as shown on Edubase.

All School Direct salaried trainees should be associated with an employing school.

In some cases, for example where students are self-funded, trainees may not be associated with an employing school. In these cases, you must return 'Not applicable/not available.'

Where the employing school does not have a URN, the below generic codes should be used

 

900000 Establishment outside England and Wales

900010 Not applicable/not available

Reason required All School Direct salaried trainees should be associated with an employing school for the purposes of data collection and funding.
Part of Student
Field length 6
Minimum occurrences 0
Maximum occurrences 1