Course 4: Planning for census
Census dayFriday 7 August 2026
Census day is the first Friday of August. Everything your school reports for NCCD needs to be accurate and complete before that date: the right students, the right adjustment levels, dated evidence, and filled-in census details.
This course is two short checklists, one for administrators and one for teachers. Each item links to the exact screen in Junipa where the work happens. Tick items off as you go; your progress stays saved in this browser.
From 3 August 2026 the non-government schools census is submitted through the new Education Funding System (EFS). Your census data in Junipa is ready for the new system. Read what changes for your school.
Start with a plan
Before any checklist: the strongest census position is a current individual plan for every funded student. A plan is where adjustments, evidence, disability alignment and signatures live together, so census week becomes a review, not a scramble.
The Plans overview shows exactly where you stand. The NCCD without plans tile counts funded students who still have no plan. If that number is not zero, that is the first thing to fix.
If you have students without plans, start here:
- Create an individual plan covers the whole flow, from template to active plan.
- Course 3: Build a plan is the guided version for first-time plan builders.
- In Junipa, open Plans → Overview and select Add Plan to Student.
Adjustment plans do the same job for students whose support is adjustment-first: they keep every adjustment dated, aligned to need, and visible to the whole team.
Pick your checklist
Confirm the right students are in NCCD reporting, census columns are complete, and gaps are batch-edited before census day.
Teachers: your adjustmentsCheck your adjustments are correctly dated, on the right student, aligned with disability, and backed by files.
Send the right link to the right people: administrators get the cohort checklist, teachers get the adjustments checklist. Both pages stand alone.