LeGSB has been advising the Department of Children, Schools and Families on the standards that underpin a number of their programmes of work.
The Information System for Parents and Providers (ISPP)
ISPP is a part of the Department’s Parent Know How programme, and will provide facilities to support an enhanced Family Services Directory, and Childcare Services Directory. The data will be drawn from Ofsted and Local Authorities, into the ‘ISPP Aggregator’, from which local authority channels and ‘Directgov’, will be able to provide discovery services to the public.
LeGSB has been advising the programme on DCSF
- XML Schemas
- Controlled Vocabularies
- Web Services
- Authentication and Transport issues and opportunities
- Location and geoCoding.
More information about ISPP can be found
here
Standards within the DCSF
LeGSB has also been invited to contribute to Working Groups within the DCSF’s Standards
Board – including
- Data Management
- Vocabularies
- Identity Management
- Interoperability
Other engagements within the DCSF
The DCSF have also asked LeGSB to advise on
- Gateway to Educational Services programme –which includes the Free School Mealsproject.
- Employee Authentication Service (EAS)
- Unique Pupil Referencing