CCC UPDATERebecca Morgan – Business Development Manager

Dan Horrex – Corporate Information Manager

Cambridgeshire County Council

October 2014 3rd Plenary meeting - Madrid

Clarifying the field trial

• Field trial will be focussed on Community Learning & Skills Partnerships (CLAS) who are managed by the Adult Learning & Skills team (ALS)

• 4 CLAS partnerships in Cambridgeshire• City & South Cambs, Fenland, East Cambs and Huntingdonshire

• Each partnership allocates the Cambridge Adult Learning Fund (CALF) for its area

• Demand for better understanding of context in which funding is awarded – better use of existing and new sources of open data

• Demand for better evidence of outcomes – requires new ways of accessing data

• Making the data work for us!

The user groups

• The CALF programme is run in 4 locations and decisions are made by a funding panel

• This panel will be the expert users in the field trail and will use the Policy Compass tool to:

• Establish a baseline of contextualised data for the district• Start collecting data on outcomes and adding them into the tool• Evaluate the proposed funding in terms of the difference it could make and

testing those assumptions with data modelling

• Lack of learner voice identified as a key issue so we are in the process of establishing Learner Panels. These panels will be our community users in the field trial to:

• Challenge funding decisions• Use the tool to model the outcomes of different funding decisions• Identify areas of need

Open Data – CCC – Policy Compass

• Cambridgeshire County Council & Open data• Certificates and Licences to enable the use of Open data• Schemas and publishing data• Council wide strategy which sets out the future direction of Open data• Locating data to be used

• Preparing datasets to become open data, these include:• Wider Impact Spreadsheets• Learner measurement spreadsheets • GCSE Performance data & National Attainment data • CALF data • Customer Personas (what different types of customers does

Cambridgeshire County Council deal with)• Census data –from Cambridgeshire Insight website• Other open datasets – from Cambridgeshire Insight and Cambridgeshire

Open data page

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Next steps

• To test first version of Policy Compass tool• Adult Learning & Skills management team will be involved in this

• To run workshops with CALF panel and Learner Advisory panels, who are already aware of the project

• Dissemination of the project objectives has been carried out but training will be needed

• To continue to identify potential open data and carry out impact assessments

• Data from new outcome measures needs to be included to support policy planning process

• To complete open data process and upload onto Policy Compass tool• Data sets are being identified and will be uploaded

Next steps

• To test first version of Policy Compass tool• Adult Learning & Skills management team will be involved in this

• To run workshops with CALF panel and Learner Advisory panels, who are already aware of the project

• Dissemination of the project objectives has been carried out but training will be needed

• To continue to identify potential open data and carry out impact assessments

• Data from new outcome measures needs to be included to support policy planning process

• To complete open data process and upload onto Policy Compass tool• Data sets are being identified and will be uploaded