Use this guide to resolve School Census Errors 2572 & 2574
AUTUMN RETURN ONLY Summer Second Half Term Attendance
Error 2572:
- DfE Validation: Where <AttendanceReason> is provided it must be a valid value Attendance code is invalid for the second half of the summer term
Error 2574:
- 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) for the second half of the summer term
Explanation for 2572 & 2574:
- Go to Reports>Attendance>Attendance Certificate and select the Students identified , then choose the start and end dates from Second Half Term , in the example this is for Autumn 2026 this is from spring bank holiday Monday 2026-05-25 to 2026-07-31 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
For information on changes to Attendance codes see Bromcom Attendance Code Changes
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 Summer second half term dates 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 2026 collection, Summer second half term
In this example below we can see the marks recorded plus any missing marks ? , possible sessions in the Pos column 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.