Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
YPLA: In response to the request in the Skills Strategy & Spending Review, the Skills Funding Agency and YPLA have been working together to develop lead arrangements for general further education colleges & sixth form colleges. Under the new arrangements these colleges will deal with a single agency for funding agreement & performance management, audit and intervention.
ICO: A new statutory code of practice designed to help businesses & public sector bodies share people’s personal information appropriately has been published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The data sharing code of practice covers both routine & one-off instances of data sharing – See ‘In the News Section’ for more information.