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.
Press release & links
 
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.
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