How to record an address with no postcode (PO Box).

Schools can provide the department with their addresses in whichever format their data is held within their MIS – either; BS7666 address format, (SAON, PAON, post town or other address items) or; address line 1 to 5. Postcode is mandatory for either format.

Whilst every effort must be made to obtain these pupil details, the department understands that in extreme circumstances this is not always possible. In such extreme cases, these fields may be left blank or a partial address can be supplied when running the census the validation errors can be ignored and attach a note when uploading the Census.