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I’ve spent two months calling Local Authorities. I offered their education Leaders an initial proposition: Increase Free School Meals take up in their catchment area Help local schools increase their Pupil Premium Empower parents to apply directly Save money in
Overview This paper is intended to consider the purpose and use of data dashboards in the context of (mainly) public sector business insight and intelligence. It will do this by working through the following four sections: Firstly, it will try
The Department for Education in collaboration with other authorities in the Education, Skills and Children’s Services sector has, since at least 2009, been developing its own set of data-related standards under the management of the Information Standards Board (ISB). According to its own website (http://data.gov.uk/education-standards/standards-adoption), “The core business of the ISB, supported by the Technical […]
An inauspicious beginning For more than twenty five years I was a civil servant, usually in charge of delivering something substantial – so I thought I knew how this would go: Not so. At the time Cabinet Office awarded the
SCROLL. Did I ever mention it? Maybe, maybe not. Assuming not, well that’s probably because we’ve been so busy building it. And now it’s here. But first things first: what is SCROLL? It’s this: SCROLL is SDA’s latest data collection,
Open letter to the A4L Systems Interoperability Framework community campaigning for a seat on their UK Management Board: Dear Colleague, My name is Mark Phillips from Software for Data Analysis Limited. Among other things we have published the DfE’s School
Onwards and upwards… Software for Data Analysis Limited have been working closely with the National Casino Forum to design and engineer SENSE, the backbone system that crystalises a new approach to Corporate Social Responsibility in the world of UK Land Based
I’m sorry I just can’t help myself. Every time I return to the fray I seem forced to grapple with a fresh example of inefficient, inconsistent or just plain inscrutable public sector blarney. My only catharsis is to write it
The Department for Education in collaboration with other authorities in the Education, Skills and Children’s Services sector has, since at least 2009, been developing its own set of data-related standards under the management of the Information Standards Board (ISB). According
SDA are delighted to announce two new peer-reviewed articles discussing their work to improve access to 1) School Performance data and 2) Free School Meals . Both papers have been spearheaded by Dr Alan Strickley, the former with contributions from SDA