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Key stage data
We needed to present the latest available key stage data to delivery officers.
Prepare conversions and transfers
27 September 2022
Cookies
Changes to our cookies banners and policies.
Prepare conversions and transfers
28 November 2022
Adding status tags to Key Stage Data pages
We had feedback that it would be useful to users to differentiate between 'Provisional', 'Revised' and 'Final' data.
Prepare conversions and transfers
6 March 2023
Making it easier to register on our service
We made some changes that reduced the data we ask users to give us, and changed what we asked so that it was more relevant and less confusing for users.
Early years child development training
3 April 2023
The new Free Schools Store (FSS)
An introduction to FSS and why we're replacing it.
Manage free school projects
30 June 2023
Scenarios
We've created some scenarios to help us understand how delivery officers and team leads manage free school projects.
Manage free school projects
6 September 2023
Iterating the single project journey
We updated the 'create a single project' journey based on user feedback.
Manage free school projects
14 November 2023
Constituency and MP
We designed a way for delivery officers to enter a constituency name and MP.
Manage free school projects
20 November 2023
Replacing family hubs with locations
User research showed that we needed to change the way locations were added to ‘Manage family support services’ in order to improve the family hubs products.
Connect families to support
4 March 2024
Exporting data from Complete
Catering for teams who use the information caseworkers and delivery officers enter to organise funding and update information about academies and trusts.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
26 March 2024
Pupil numbers
Confirming whether a new free school will have enough pupils.
Manage free school projects
4 April 2024
Providing key performance indicator (KPI) metrics
We wanted to find a way to display KPIs on ‘Manage family support services and accounts’ (Manage).
Connect families to support
16 April 2024
Performance analysis in private beta
How we will collect data to measure how well the service is performing.
Find a lost TRN
6 May 2022
Project statuses
An MVP (minimum viable product) design for project statuses.
Manage free school projects
26 September 2024
What is the Task and Service Index?
An overview of the service.
Manage your DfE Connect data
6 November 2023
Allowing LA account managers to view VCS services
We identified the need for local authority (LA) account managers to have more oversight of services added by volunteer and community sector (VCS) organisations.
Connect families to support
4 July 2024
Capturing why conversion and transfer dates change
The Data Analytics Unit (DAU) investigate and report on the causes of project delays. This is how we added that data to Complete for the DAU.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
23 August 2024
Capturing why conversion or transfer dates change
The Data Analytics Unit (DAU) investigate and report on the causes of project delays. This is how we added that data to Prepare for the DAU.
Prepare conversions and transfers
23 August 2024
An MvP to download data from within "Academies in this trust"
How we created an MvP feature to download data within one sub-page
Find information about academies and trusts
6 September 2024
Allowing local authority account managers to delete services
Our team decided to implement a delete functionality to allow users to remove services from the directory.
Connect families to support
26 September 2024
Receiving projects from Prepare conversions and transfers
Prepare and Complete are separate products in the same service. Users work on a project in Prepare, then have to manually recreate it in Complete once it is approved. This is wastes time, entering information we already have. We're now automating it.
Complete conversions, transfers and changes
3 October 2024
Bulk editing fields
We needed a way for some of our users to edit multiple fields across projects.
Manage free school projects
15 October 2024
Adding information about pipeline academies
When assessing whether a school can join a certain trust, users need find out how many and the type of pipeline academies that are joining, so that they can determine if the trust has capacity to take on any more schools amongst other details.
Find information about academies and trusts
17 December 2024