Who they are and what do they do...
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They are a division of the UK government called the Department for Education; also referred to as the DfE. Children and their welfare are their number one priority with their purpose being to '...make this the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up.' Their initiatives focus on children's health, happiness, safety, education and social growth.
For more information you can view the DfE website at http://www.education.gov.uk/
How we help them...
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RM Data Solutions supports the DfE achieve their ambitions by providing resources to the following initiatives:
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National Pupil Database Achievement and Attainment Tables (NPD/AAT)
RM Data Solutions has managed the annual production of the performance tables for the DfE since 1994. Each year RM Data Solutions processes data for 2.5m pupils that is collected, matched and processed from 22,000 schools and 150 awarding bodies.
Since 2005, RM Data Solutions has been producing data analyses and reporting for the City Challenge team, grouping schools in London, Greater Manchester and the Black Country into statistical families and publishing data in books and in through a website which is used to support school improvement and encourage schools to share good practice.
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Families of Schools
The Families of Schools initiative for the last three years has produced the London Challenge Families of Schools booklet. Supported by RM Data Solutions since 2007 and utilising the technology for RAISEonline, an online version replicating reports in the booklet has been produced. The project has expanded to Greater Manchester and Black Country this year and extra reports that could never have been produced for the community of school and LA users have also been produced. This innovative implementation is helping to challenge schools to increase expectations for these difficult urban catchments areas.
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RAISEonline (jointly run by Ofsted and the DfE )
Produced by RM Data Solutions, RAISEonline is a web-based business intelligence tool used to disseminate school performance data and replaces the current Ofsted Performance and Assessment (PANDA) reports and the DfE Pupil Achievement Tracker (PAT) database system. As well as DfE and Ofsted, RAISEonline is used by Head Teachers, teachers and administrative staff in 22,000 maintained schools, and 150 local authorities.
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