Local Authority
Regional government is faced with mounting financial pressure and evolving responsibilities to protect children from harm. Reliable data from an increasingly academised system can be complex to source in a timely fashion. Automating this orchestration, and working with the source systems used in both the LA maintained and academies sectors not only saves time and money, but enables earlier identification of risk.
Central Government
The Department for Education and related sector agencies, such as Ofsted, are reliant on the provision of data from the school system to identify risk to school improvement, prioritise funding and investment based on changing demographics and disadvantage and to inform policy. With constructive engagement with the sector, particularly Multi Academy Trusts, data may be ethically shared to help drive system change.
Policy
Many organisations that help to make sense of education data for the purposes of policy influence, such as the Education Endowment Foundation or the Education Policy Institute, would benefit from further appropriate and ethical access to data. Sector collaboration, preserving anonymity and the mission of social benefit, is important for timely access to data that can help to inform future policy research.