Sarah our Financial Manager has very kindly taken the Census off my hands this year - a lot more data needs to be collected than before and we have been planning for this by collecting that data for all children since September.

We are only required to head-count children at our setting receiving NEG on a certain day of January - all settings including schools have to do the same.

We have submitted our data electronically using a secure system. The penalty for not submitting the data is withdrawal of the Nursery Education Grant to help parents of over 3s.