Use this guide to resolve School Census Errors 2475 & 2490
Error 2475:
- DfE Validation: Where <AttendanceReason> is provided it must be a valid value. Attendance code is invalid
Error 2490:
- DfE Validation: Where <Sessions> is provided, a corresponding valid <AttendanceReason> must be provided Pupil reporting number of attendance or absence sessions with no corresponding reason (attendance code)
Explanation for 2475 & 2490:
- Go to Reports>Attendance>Attendance Certificate and select the Students identified , then choose the start and end dates as defined in (Modules>Census>School>Select Return>’Attendance includes’ dates) then click Preview.
- Then check all the Attendance Codes in the Attendance Certificate Report are from the list of DfE Valid Codes below. You can also use this report to check for any Missing marks (?)
- If you do have any custom Attendance Codes recorded against Students then they MUST have a DfE Export Mark and the correct Meaning. For example if you have used the K mark and this equals Present then the Meaning would be Present and the Export Mark would need to mean present. See How to Create & Manage Attendance Codes and see Example Custom Code below.
- Then once you have identified any incorrect or missing attendance marks go to Modules>Attendance>Manage Attendance to complete/amend the attendance for the Students. See How to Manage Attendance
Attendance Codes
Please see Attendance code changes for 2024-2025
For further guidance on Bromcom Census see here
THE EXAMPLES AND SCREENSHOTS IN THIS GUIDE ARE FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY
Go to Reports>Attendance>Attendance Certificate
You can use this report to review Attendance Codes and search for Missing (?) marks
- On Report for move to Student and then click the Find button to choose the Student(s) this will open the Student Selector list for all Students that are currently on roll.
- Then for the Day Start and Day End refer to the Attendance Collection periods (from Modules>Census>School>Select Return) for the Census you are returning and then click Preview
- In the example below we are looking for Attendance dates for the Autumn 2023 collection
In this example we can see the missing marks ? in the table and the date range applied below the table
IMPORTANT in order for the resolved error/query to be removed from the list of errors/queries you would need to generate a new Census return and remember to use save & validate for the errors/queries to update/clear.