Hi all

I thought it’d be useful to point you to key information that has been published following the board meeting.

At its meeting on 28 January, the information authority board decided that only the 2011 Census codes are to be used for the 2011/12 ILR. We had previously suggested that the adoption of the new codes would be optional but that was before the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) requested that only the Census codes should be available. The reasons for the request are detailed in the paper which went to the January board meeting. Our recent news item has further information on how ethnicity data is to be collected in 2011/12. If you have any comments or queries about this, please reply below or contact me directly.

The board also agreed to four essential ILR changes for 2011/12. Further details will be in the board minutes which will be available later today and some presentation slides that will be available later this week. The background behind the changes, our consultation and the recommendations are all in the essential late changes paper which also went to the board.

Other news is that we held a meeting in Coventry late last week to talk to software suppliers and learning providers about the technical changes that the Data Service is making to its systems and the development of the single, restructured learner record in XML. The outputs and presentations from that meeting will be published later this week. On Thursday this week we are hosting a meeting for Employer Responsive providers.

Finally, we’re just finalising details with our next hot seat guest on feconnect. The vast majority of discussion in the Data Issues forum just now seems to be on Foundation Learning so we’ve invited a colleague from the Young People’s Learning Agency to be our next hot seat guest to take your questions and comments on Foundation Learning.  More on that in due course.

Paul

The closing date for requesting changes to the 2010/11 ILR is Friday 26 June. The changes will initially be considered by the information authority’s secretariat using the assessment criteria agreed by the board. Those that meet the criteria will be taken forward for consultation over the summer.
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Hi all,

Apologies for this digest coming out after the Bank Holiday, and not on Friday. We hope you all had a refreshing extra day off!

As was the case last week, we haven’t received any additional requests for change to the 2010/11 ILR this week. Stakeholders have one month to submit change requests, but we are recommending that you speak to us as soon as possible so that we can thoroughly work through any requests, and work out the best possible proposals for the information authority board to consider.
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Hi,

This is the first in our weekly ‘digest’ blogs that the Community and Stakeholder Team will be doing throughout the 2010/11 ILR change process to help you keep up-to-date with requests as they come in and comments that are made.
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