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Primary and secondary schools across England and Wales are diving into our census programmes. With over 7,000 primary schools signed up to Let’s Count! and over 700 secondary schools signed up to our secondary programme, students are learning about the census in a range of cross-curricular subjects.
Earlier in the month, we ran a successful live lesson for Let’s Count!, presented by Professor David Olusoga. The engaging session explored equality, representation and the census which has been watched over 26,000 times so far. The lesson is on our YouTube channel for schools and pupils to watch back if they missed it.
We are also continuing to run competitions for both programmes, encouraging student participation and offering the opportunity to win great prizes.
For Let’s Count!, pupils have been asked to count things in their homes and local areas. From the data they collect, they will use charts and graphs to create colourful and engaging census displays.
For our secondary school programme, we’ve tasked students to create their own campaigns to encourage people to complete the census. By investigating what matters to their local area, students will be active citizens and bring their community together.
There is still plenty of time for schools to register for the programmes and you can find more information at census.gov.uk/education
If you have any questions or would like further information on how to get involved with the census education programmes, contact census.education@ons.gov.uk
100 % of respondents from the first of these workshops said they had learnt something new. Don't miss your chance to find out what will be happening during the census operation.
Jason Zawadski, Deputy Director Census Collection, will open the workshop with a Census 2021 update.
There are still places available for the 2nd workshop which includes information on field roles and census support centres.
If you have a census question, attend this workshop and use sli.do to ask it. We will follow up on all questions that we don't have time to respond to in the workshop.
Date: 24 February.
To sign up for this workshop please use this Eventbrite link.
The Council Advertising Network (CAN) have been brought in to support the census campaign with council website advertising. Existing CAN network partners will receive the campaign to approve automatically. Councils not currently on the network can email Mark@can-digital.net to get set up. There is no cost to join.
This guide was sent out to all CLMs and ACLMs this morning. It is designed to be used by front line LA staff who might have to deal with questions from the public.
FAQ guide for local authorities
This week we sent a bulletin inviting you to order our phase 2 leaflets and posters for LA buildings. A link to this document can be found below. Please remember that the deadline for all orders is 24 February (next Wednesday).
Leaflets and posters bulletin
The national marketing campaign is now underway and you may have seen our adverts on tv, in newspapers and on the radio. Households should start to receive postcards telling them that census is on its way from the 22 February. They should then start receiving their census packs from 1 March onwards.
These articles were included in previous newsletters and have not changed. Links to each newsletter article are included here in case you missed them.
Enumeration of students
Addressing update
Council Tax update
Census 2021 Website: www.census.gov.uk
Recruitment: Census Jobs
Quality Assurance: ONS’s approach and processes for assuring the quality of 2021 Census data
Census 2021 Questionnaire: paper questionnaires are now available to view online
Census Order and Regulations for England and Wales:
Census (England and Wales) Order 2020.
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