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

Hi

It’s been a while since our last blog but we’ve had plenty to be getting on with. We had to review all 60 of the ILR change requests, look at the issues raised for those that went out for consultation and then provide the information authority board with a recommendation for each change. The board met at the end of September to agree what will be in the 2010/11 ILR. We’ve already published a brief overview of the 2010/11 ILR changes and discussed them at our recent advisory group meetings. Colleagues are now working on writing the 2010/11 ILR specification which will be published on 27 November 2009.
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Hello all,

We have not done an update for a couple of weeks now, so here is a bit of a longer update of what we have been up to.

On Monday, we opened the consultation on the amended change request from the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) about bringing forward the F01 collection date. The full change request can be read in the Change Requests for 2010/11 ILR document on our website, and you can contribute to the consultation via our forum. We are expecting many more consultations to go live in the next couple of weeks as the final change requests make their way to the information authority’s secretariat before the deadline this Friday (26^th June).
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Following the success of our first Hot Seat event with our very own Graham Jones (you can still read this Hot Seat discussion),  we are pleased to announce that our next Hot Seat guest will be Mike Davis HMI from Ofsted.
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Afternoon all,

The weather is lovely outside, so I’ll try not to keep you glued to your desks for too long while you try and find out what we’ve been up to in the last week.

Things are starting to pick up on the ILR change requests front – we have been in discussion with LSC colleagues about a number of proposals they will be submitting shortly. The details for these changes are still being finalised, so we will have some more information for you in the next couple of weeks.
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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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