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School Management Services Data Protection Service
MAT DATA ANALYTICS
We use the latest data visualisation tools such as Microsoft Power BI to bring your current MIS and finance data to life. As part of an ICFP consultancy project we produce an interactive and intuitive dashboard for senior leaders or governors, tailored to your individual school, to present key ICFP metrics, recommended DfE budget metrics and aggregated national benchmarking data. This dashboard is used to assess the performance of your school, as compared to regional and national averages, and produce a final report outlining our finding and recommendations.
Service Description
SEF - Local Context Report: NPW will consolidate the latest regional, national and school level data in an intuitive and concise report to support your SEF statement and provide clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction for MAT leaders and trustees
MAT Aggregated Live MIS Reports (chargeable): NPW will provide a MAT level dashboard using the latest data visualisation tools to give MAT leaders a comprehensive overview of MAT level and school level MIS data to help monitor key characteristics and educational performance of the organisation and present key metrics for pupils and staff.
Service Usage Reports (Internal value add): NPW will produce a comprehensive reporting pack including related metrics and KPIs to inform MAT leaders about NPW service usage and help MATs assess value for money TITLE Benefits • SEF - Local Context Report
Access to the latest local and regional data relevant to support your SEF document • MAT Aggregated Live MIS Reports
High level analysis of MAT level and school level MIS data to monitor KPIs, inform MAT strategy & initiatives and support effective management & leadership • Service Usage Reports
Transparency on service usage, reassurance in terms of compliance, benchmarking to other schools, help MATs demonstrate value for money
INTEGRATED CURRICULUM & FINANCIAL PLANNING
Commit to educational success and financial security
ICFP is a management process that helps effective schools to plan for future improvement and financial sustainability. By measuring and benchmarking curriculum, staffing structures and finances, the data is used to create a 3- 5 year plan.
The integrated plan addressing vision, education and finance seeks to deliver all round success and a strong evidence-based narrative that will provide direction and confidence for the future.
ICFP balances the relationship between three areas: curriculum and teachers; education support staff and resources; overheads and operational costs.
Activities:
Question: What are we doing, how much of it and what does it cost; are we doing it well with quality and efficiency? Is it having a positive impact?
Analyse: The current financial position, understand the teaching resources and identify any expected changes to the school community.
Benchmark: Comparison with a personalised group of similar schools, identify any outliers and review.
Improve: Identify The curriculum you wish to provide; link to budget planning; use the plan to implement your vision for the future.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
As cloud and collaborative solutions are prominent and deliver better overall value, The Education Space is offering a strategic service to reframe ICT services in schools.
The service is offered from the consumers’ service perspective rather than a ‘server refresh’, and will assess current reliability and capacity risks to ensure delivery in a logical manner with outcomes for students and teachers in mind.
TITLE- Vanessa Pittard, Formerly Assistant Director, Department for Education
The Education Space is investing in a vision to equip the children of today with the skills of tomorrow through collaborative learning. Educating the four C’s (Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration) is at the heart of The Education Space’s Digital Strategy for delivery of ICT services to its customers.
The Education Space is committed to providing services that deliver maximum value through the use of technology. Our vision is to reduce spend on operational ICT and shift the budget towards education improvement, leading to better outcomes for children. This will also alleviate the added pressure of a potential reduction in budgets, due to funding formula changes.
Phase 1 - Understand
We will assess current services and risks, to understand what is being used and how, to enable risk reduction and better interim performance.
Outputs:
• A report on shared data within your school to provide information on current access and use of data to enable decisions on data cleansing
• An audit of applications that are being used and their purpose to provide visibility on usage/potential duplication.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Phase 2 - Define
We will define a course of action using information collected from phase 1.
Outputs:
• A review of shared data • A review of applications and their usage • Initial CPD and SLT buy-in session provided by The Education Space
Certified Google Trainers • A review of any automated processes (account/group creation).
Phase 3 - Implement
We will implement platforms using the design created from phase 2 and reduce capacity and performance risks by migrating documents into Google Drive.
Outputs:
• CPD for staff in preparation for using Google Docs and Drive and Classroom • Implementation of G Suite accounts and groups as per the permissions defined in phase 2 and automation considered • Creation of a folder structure as defined in phase 2 • Roll out of drive file stream to enable Google Drive to be accessed on Windows Machines • Migration of files and folders from on-premise infrastructure to Google Drive • Consider application audit and alternatives if required.
This will produce the following outcomes:
• Reduce reliance on on-site server based technology • An opportunity to review backup costs and scale down as required • Reduce risk of data loss by placing documents on a well-protected and supported resilient platform • Children benefiting from using Google as a collaborative platform • Teachers benefiting from using Google Classroom as a learning platform • No longer require on-premise storage disks, with Google Drive offering unlimited capacity for free.