Transcript PICS MI Reporting - Pellcomp Software

PICS User Group
July 19th 2007
Pellcomp Software Ltd
Roger Pellant
Luke Fitzgerald
Tim Davies
Tim Searle
John Innes
Gavin Willis
PICS and Pellcomp
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Around 420 customers
many new sales
 many additions to system
 Covers LSC
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WBL, E2E, TTG, ACL, LAP, ALA…
JCP, DELLS (Wales), EZ, and private
training
Consortium arrangements
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a particular strength
Recent enhancements
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In response to your requests
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many detailed improvements
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dependants (for ACL and family learning)
contact hours (especially for TtG)
enhanced analysis reports
more LSC funding calculation changes
and lots, lots, lots more
keep an eye on the newsletters and release notes
In response to the LSC
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LAP funding
ALA processing and exports
Support desk
Large number of calls (13 500 in last
year, up 12.5%)
 Further support team training
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another new member just started
Consistently gets good feedback
 Offers expert training
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in house
 training events
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News from the LSC
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Software Suppliers’ meeting of July 9th
Information Authority
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on hold until DIUS sorted out
Information Service Pilot
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‘culture of service for providers’
several interesting discoveries
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providers need more transparency in reports
more harmonisation between LSC and Ofsted
better service answering queries
don’t need new LSC reports
pilot to run another 18 months
on hold until DIUS sorted out
More from the LSC
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MIAP making progress
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but appears to be slippage
matching algorithm 95% success
Year-end changes
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ILR already defined
new PFR to include TtG details
• may also include uplift rates
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Requirements for Funding real soon now
NES TtG ILR spec
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with providers by July 20th
Following sessions
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New PICS facilities
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Lunch
MIAP presentation
LSC representatives
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current state of play
long term strategy
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future plans for PICS
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Surveys
Ofsted reports
Scheduled reports
Consortium handling
Export as…
Improved logging
HTML help
General discussion