DfE pauses or cancels all but essential data collections
The Department for Education (DfE) has released guidance on how it reducing budens on the education sector during the coronavirus pandemic.
Regarding to the collection of data, services and requests, the DfE and its agencies have "cancelled or paused all but the most essential data collections, services and requests from educational and care settings until the end of June 2020".
Data collections which are paused will be reviewed and the pause period extended if necessary.
It says a decision on data collections or services which are not due to go live until later in the year will be made in due course.
Data collections and services that are cancelled this year include the special provision capital fund (SPCF), key stage 1 (KS1) assessments, and phonics screening checks.
Data collections that are paused until June 30 include the academies capital grant and land and building information request for new academies.
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