Planning for the Future: How the Data & Statistics Strategy will help us get the right data for our future policy needs

Planning for the future

How the Data & Statistics Strategy will help us get the right data for our future policy needs

Speakers:

Malcolm Britton DCSF

Kevin Rennie KPMG

Rob Bear KPMG

Andrew Waterer KPMG

2010 DCSF Research Conference

Agenda

13:45 Welcome from Malcolm Britton, Head of the Data Services Group in DCSF

13:55 What will the strategy cover?

14:00 Introduction to exercise on identifying future needs

14:05 Exercise to identify future needs

14:40 Plenary

14: 55 Closing remarks

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What will the strategy cover?Work package 1 – Identify future needs

Scenario

Policy Challenges

Policy Questions

Data and Statistical Requirements

Core requirements

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Scenario

Policy Challenges

Policy Questions

Data and Statistical Requirements

Scenario

Policy Challenges

Policy Questions

Data and Statistical Requirements

Core requirements

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Future Scenario thinking Knowledge map

Identify future data

requirements

Map outcore

requirements

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What will the strategy cover?Work Package 2: Manage Demand

AchievabilityLow High

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Prioritisation mechanisms

Develop Prioritisation mechanism

Agree governance

arrangements

Governance arrangements

Benchmark best practice

elsewhere

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What will the strategy cover? Work Package 3: Co-ordinate supply

Linkages

Identify linkages with

other data sets

Join up with IT Strategy

Roadmap to deliver overall

strategy

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•Consumer support for e-assessment

•Providers delivering e-assessment

•PSA Targets delivered

•Wider educational strategy supported

•Early pathfinders

•Low uptake in schools

•Willingness to engage

•Concern about standards and evidence

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Exercise to identify future needs - possible axes to future gaze

local national

institution holistic

single phase cross phase

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Exercise to identify future needs – the tasks:

We are going to split into three groups. Agree who will report back from your group

Task 1 – Imagine yourself 15 years in the future and do three things (20 minutes):

– Identify two key DCSF policy challenges that could arise in the future, for which data will be needed

– Identify the key questions that will need to be answered and data required – Consider the axes and agree whether movement to any of the “poles” would

alter the way in which data is gathered and held to answer the questions concerned

Task 2 – Put yourself back to 2010 and do one thing (20 minutes):– Identify the top two or three gaps in data and statistics that DCSF could secure

within the next 5 years which would help determine how policy interventions are impacting and / or enable the front line to deliver more effectively

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Task 1 – Future gazing

Policy Challenge Key questions that need to be answered

Key new data needed (over what is currently available)

Notes on whether poles on the “axes” change way in which data is gathered and held

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Task 2 – Immediate gaps

Gaps in current data(brief description of the gap and why it needs to be filled)

What can be done(e.g. linkages to other data sets, amend existing survey / new service / new data collection)

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Plenary and closing comments

Report back from each group (3 minutes each) and consider any cross-cutting themes (10 minutes)

Thank you! Your contributions will inform the data strategy.

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