INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Scope
• the system of education, skills and childrens
  services
• Sponsors
• Department for Children, Schools and Families
• Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills
• .

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Success in this endeavour will
• free up front line professionals
• make it more cost effective to develop new
  electronic systems
• encourage interoperability
• achieve better outcomes for children and learners
  through making better quality information
  available, and at less cost

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• ISBs Business Plan for 2008-09
• summarises our achievements from 2007-08
• re-affirms our remit and principles
• lays out our 2008-09 strategy and objectives
• summarises our planned outputs, activities and
  outcomes

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Progress during 2007-08
• appointment of an independent chair
• transformation of a highly influential ISB
  working group into a formal Advisory Body
• launch of the ISB in January 2008 with the
  Permanent Secretaries of DCSF and DIUS
• assumption of the authority to govern and lead on
  information and data standards

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Progress during 2007-08
• laid out our strategy
• established a Technical Support Service
• identified priority standards for approval
• approved the Aligned Data Definitions
• agreed a roadmap for future work

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Key highlights in 2008-09
• a website as the main communications channel with
  a go live date of 26 June
• a collaborative tool to assist in standards
  approval also with a go live date of 26 June
• a registry of standards in machine readable form
  with a go live date of autumn 2008

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Whats In it for You?
• an opportunity to influence programme development
  through Special Interest Group and Working
  Parties
• adoption of standards system wide will improve
  interoperability and efficiency over time
• a greater re-use of existing data, information
  and resources
• resources via the website, collaborative tools
  and later a registry to help reduce development
  costs
• a Technical Support Service for System Wide
  standards development

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INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

• Success outcomes in 2008-09
• the ISBs success will depend on the contribution
  of standards experts and business systems owners
  from right across the system
• The ISB is working with LeGSB on common areas of
  interest. However, when you set out to develop
  new electronic systems in the system of
  education, skills and childrens services think
  of the ISB first
• work with the relevant programme to consult our
  Technical Support Service