D2I news for March: recruiting, revising, and reimagining
- alistairherbert
- Mar 17
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 8
Dear Data to Insight colleagues –
Please find below another bundle of news, within which I hope you’ll find something of interest. As always, if you want to talk about this stuff, or have ideas for how we can do useful things – or how you’d like to get involved – then reply to this email and let us know what you’re thinking about.
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D2I job opportunity!
RIIA and EH Q3 benchmarking data
Ofsted inspection Power BI dashboard
Benchmarking Tool updated with workforce data
NVEST
Upcoming events
Early Help data partnership workshops
RIIA dataset reflective workshops
Next open house
Python workshops
NVEST quarterly events
Credits
D2I job opportunity!
Data Manager (Data to Insight) | Salary from £42,916 | Home working with some paid travel | Apply before 30th March
We’re looking to expand our team to support the South East Regional Care Co-operative with their regional data platform for the next year or so, and hopefully to help us support other regions with similar efforts around data sharing, data pipelines, and shared technical solutions. The role will be part of the wider team so there will be people to learn from and plenty of chances to work together and get involved in different bits of what we do.
The advert has more detail, but what I’d say here is that this is a chance for anyone interested in this work to stretch their skills, work with lots of great colleagues around the country, and help us design the long-term support approach for some exciting new regional data capabilities. With local government reorganisation gearing up, and the regional care co-operatives coming into being, I think it’s crucial we have good ways of working with data at regional scale, and of managing those solutions effectively for users. If you think you could help with that, please do consider putting in an application, and feel free to get in touch by email if you’d like a chat about the role.
RIIA and EH Q3 benchmarking tools
A quick note to say that we’ve now received back RIIA Q3 data from all regions, so we’ve updated the RIIA Quarterly Benchmarking Tool accordingly.
The Early Help Benchmarking Tool is now also updated, with a new record 87 LAs contributing this quarter! If you’d like your LA or region to join this partnership, it’s as simple as starting to send us quarterly aggregate data using the return template. Email for more information.
Ofsted inspections Power BI dashboard
Hot on the heels of last week’s Early Help dashboard from Somerset Council, our friends at the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA) have shared a public dashboard they now maintain based on the data from our Ofsted inspection datasets.
The dashboard has five pages and covers ILACS and SEND inspections, with all manner of filters and visualisations available. It draws from data which D2I compiles from the Ofsted PDF inspection reports each Monday morning, and includes direct links back to those full datasets in case you want to dig into the detail.
We’ve also added a link to the dashboard to the “Core toolkit” page of the D2I website, for ease of reference. And we’ll have a session at our next D2I Open House (see below) to talk through how it all works.
Benchmarking Tool updated with Workforce data
DfE shared the outturn from the Social Work Workforce Census last month, and we’ve updated our benchmarking tool accordingly.
(3.50) Added SW Workforce 2024 return
(3.50) Minor fixes
We’re not issuing an accompanying updated version of ChAT, as we’re anticipating the CIN/CLA outcomes publication within the next month or so, so look out for more news on that in the coming weeks.
NVEST inaugural event
“There are very few things less predictable than families.”
“There are fantastic possibilities in what ICT can add to CSC. It’s important that it’s led by people who understand what that work is.”
Professor Eileen Munro
We closed February with the inaugural event for NVEST – the National Voice for Excellence in Safeguarding Technology. Over 80 colleagues from around 50 LAs joined us to hear a keynote speech from Professor Eileen Munro, and to share their own thoughts about how we could use a group like this to help each other achieve meaningful change in our systems and the ways we manage them.
I took pages and pages of notes at the event, and will be following up with a NVEST newsletter in the very near future. We’re planning future events now, and welcome input from you about what these should include. You can sign up using the link above.
Upcoming events
Early Help data partnership reflective workshops (Next meeting: Thursday 20th March 12:00 – 13:30)
RIIA dataset reflective workshops(Next meeting: Thursday 27th March 12:00 – 13:30)
D2I open house / core tools workshops – email John for an invitation to either (Next open house: Wednesday 19th March at 13:00)
Python workshops – email Will for an invitation(Running weekly on Thursday and Friday afternoons)
NVEST second event (speakers TBC)(Thursday 14th May 14:00 – 16:30)
Credits
Credit for recent improvements to our data tools and project work is due to colleagues in:
Somerset
LIIA
Essex
Hertfordshire
Warrington
Barnet
North Tyneside
Newham
Somerset
Leeds
Camden
Sutton
Croydon
North Yorkshire
Wandsworth
Islington
Southwark
Oldham
Cheshire East
Knowsley
East Sussex
Waltham Forest
Wolverhampton
Department for Education
Ofsted
York
Coventry
GMCA
That’s it! If you have any comments, queries or ideas that you want to share, just let us know.
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