Southwark Children

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Southwark Childrens ServicesManagement
Information and Analysis

• Daniel Finnie Data Manager

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Two things to say

• Why we need you to have an effective management
  information system
• Why you need you to have an effective management
  information system

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What do these have in common?
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School Budget 2007
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They are your school census
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The Census One or two uses

• In order to track children who are potentially
  missing from education
• In order to track the location of vulnerable
  children such as Looked After Children
• In order to produce school budgets
• In order to produce school profiles
• In order to work with colleagues in health and
  other services to provide services to children
  such as vaccinations
• In order to ensure that sufficient school places
  are available across the LA
• Ensure the success of the coordinated admissions
  process

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The Census One or two uses

• In order to monitor exclusions across the LA
• In order to work out attendance for the LA during
  the term and monitor children known to our
  Education Welfare and Attendance Service
• In order to verify that Unique Pupil Numbers are
  being maintained across childrens schooling
• In order to verify schools free school meals
  information
• In order to calculate the Governments
  performance indicators for local authorities,
  which require all pupils data to be included

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How its used
Your challenge

• Does the registers
• Does the dinner money
• Produces the census
• Records the pupils results
• Has attendance records
• Has the list of teachers on it
• Records exclusions
• Manages invoices
• Keeps contact details for parents
• Lists for the teacher for school trips

Key tool in school improvement and self
evaluation
Operational
Strategic
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Food for thought

• Are data collections a job for the school
  administrator, or is it the whole schools
  responsibility?
• Are standard reports or exports produced for
  headteachers and governors for meetings and if
  they dontwhat is it that decisions are being
  based on?
• Is there anything the software isnt doing just
  now which it could do to support the school?
• What cant it tell you just now that it should be
  able to?
• Are school improvement partners challenging the
  school to monitor the progress of specific groups
  - is the software allowing you to do this?

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Food for thought

• Are there still data silos within school (the
  SENCO has the list of SEN children its not on
  Wauton Samuel)
• Are teachers aware of the importance of keeping
  the datasets up to date when they receive new
  information do they know the effect it has on
  the school if they dont?
• Are there separate systems being used for
  functions within the school (e.g. monitoring
  bullying) that could be done within the software
• If the LA tries to make you use a piece of
  software that means entering data again or
  separating it from your MIS what can you say?