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

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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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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Afternoon all,

This is just a quick note to let you know that the following documents have recently been published on the information authority’s website, and can be downloaded via the ILR Documents page.
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It is that time of the year again – the information authority has informed the sector that the ILR change request process is now open.  Although the deadline for submissions is 26 June 2009, we welcome earlier submissions (ideally, by end of May) and discussion to maximise consultation and minimise difficulty at later stages.
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Workshops
We have now finished the latest round of consulation workshops. I was really pleased with the way they went. Thanks again to those of you who were able to attend and to the LSC, South Thames College, Newcastle College and Community Training Services for hosting these events.
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The information authority board met this week and made decisions that will guide the work of the authority over the coming months. The main item on the agenda for this meeting was the consideration of changes to the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) specification for 2009/10.
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