Hello colleagues

You will have seen our news item about our new chairman, Geoff Hall.  Many of you will know him from his many years in the further education sector.  We are looking forward to working with him to deliver the best service for you.  As a baptism of fire, one of Geoff’s first actions as chairman will be to chair the board meeting to consider the exceptional 2011/12 ILR change requests put forward by the funding agencies.  We will update you on the board decisions as soon as possible. 

Things are also getting very interesting on the Single Restructured Learner Record in XML project.  We met software suppliers and own software writers on 20 January 2011 to consult with them on developments and timescales.  The presentations and notes of the meeting will be available on our website shortly.  We also ran sessions which were attended by the Data Service, Skills Funding Agency, YPLA and Ofsted to discuss the intricacies and detailed impact of the change.  Their input will ensure that everything works as planned.  As an attendee at all these meetings, I can assure you that they posed questions that taxed our specification team!

We are also starting on the conference circuit soon.  We will be presenting at the Spring College Data Conference on 03 March 2011.   

Lastly, although Get it in! Get in Right! is ‘taking a break’, the usual reminder applies – ULNs are compulsory on the LR02 due on 14 February 2011! Best to warn the partners that Valentines may be late this year….

Selvy

Hi all

Although the name is quite a mouthful, it was essentially a meeting with change requesters, data users, provider representative organisations and the Data Service to work through the ILR change requests for 2011/12. The main objectives were to generate questions and issues to consult with the further education system as well as identify conflicts with existing data use. We found it extremely useful as it meant we could combine policy, information purpose, process issues and potential data burden aspects of each of the change requests going forward.  We also think it has helped us scope the change requests going forward and that the consultation process will be more focused – of course you will be the judge of that…

Those who attended the meeting also seemed to find it useful in understanding the different perspectives of those present.  They recommended that we permanently adopt this meeting into the change request process.

The consultation process with learning providers and software houses will start with the ILR Change Request Stakeholder event on 15 July 2010.  The consultation on feconnect will commence shortly after so please contribute as and when these come up.

Selvy

Hi all

As promised, we have launched some further consultations here on feconnect as part of the 2010/11 ILR change process. The four change requests that were published today are:
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Hi all

It has been a busy couple of weeks for us here at the information authority – we have been working through the 60 change requests for the 2010/11 ILR that we received, and making decisions on which ones we will be rejecting, and which ones we need input from the FE system on before we write up recommendations for the board meeting at the end of September.
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Over the last few weeks, colleagues in the information authority have been assessing the requests to change the 2010/11 ILR against the criteria. We’ve started responding to change requestors with initial recommendations. For some requests we’re clarifying aspects of the change. With requests that don’t meet the criteria, we’re recommending that the change is declined. There are some that look like meeting the initial criteria and they will be taken forward for consultation, with options and issues published on feconnect.
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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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