The Department for Children, Schools and Families

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• The Department for Children, Schools and Families
  
• Ryan Murray
• Department for Children, Schools and Families

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Headline Figures

• EYC 39 Pilot Authorities
• 36 made a return
• 28 sent lt80 return
• AP 41 Pilot Authorities
• 18 made a return
• 18 sent 100 return

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Headline Figures (2)

• PRU 41 Pilot Authorities
• 21 completed a return
• 19 completed 100 return

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Reasons for not taking part

• Resources unavailable at LAs to undertake this
  lengthy piece of work
• Disagreement of who would collate data within
  the LA
• Incomplete data held at this time
• Lack of support/delivery from software companies
• Difficulties with the XML converter

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Support Issues

• Users not setup on COLLECT
• Expected lists were not up to date
• Problems with the converter
• IT security problems with individual browsers
• LAs losing the website address

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Resource Issues (DCSF)

• We needed full time technical support
• Helpdesk were only partially trained, this
  identified gaps in their knowledge
• Highlighted small validation errors in the blades
  

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• EYC 2007 Pilot Exercise
• Main Findings
• 36 LAs submitted data
• 88,000 individual child records (approx 19 of
  the total funded children from the 2007
  census)

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• Duplicates within EY settings
• Identify child records that might potentially
  be duplicated
• A child can legitimately be attending more than
  one EY setting. It is only a problem if the
  total number of funded hours for the child
  breaches the free entitlement

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• The following selection criteria were used to
  identify potential duplicates
• - where two or more records from the same setting
  have matching names and the same combination of
  Date of Birth and Gender
• - where any two or more records have matching
  names, the same combination of Date of Birth and
  Gender and Postcode and the total of Funded Hours
  across the matching records is greater than 12.5

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• Pilot exercise has identified
• 253 potential duplicate records, of which
• - 214 duplicate records within same LAs
• - 30 duplicate records within same setting
• - 9 duplicate records across LAs

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AP and PRU PilotData Quality
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AP Pilot Authorities Figures

• 41 Pilot LAs
• Only 18 returned data!!!
• 2,339 pupils
• Errors
• Issues around loading

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PRU Pilot Authorities

• 41 Pilot LAs
• Only 21 returned data!!!
• 2,565 pupil records
• Staff information and Unit Contact Time
• Errors
• Issues around loading

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AP and PRU Data Quality

• UPNs
• Missing Data
• Ethnicity
• SEN
• FSM
• Comparison with SLASC and Form 8B

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Duplicates

• Duplicate UPN check
• Duplicate Pupil Check
• Method of Resolving Duplicates
• Cross Blade Duplicates

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Further Help

• Contact Details
• - DSG.Helpdesk_at_dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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Finally

• Any Questions

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