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Improving communications with schools:
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organisation and management > administration and management > procedures |
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audience |
organisations that communicate with schools |
action required |
adopt the information classification system
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timing |
during autumn term 2002 |
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guidelines |
description |
The information classification system (ICS) will help head teachers
and school staff to manage their paperwork more easily. Organisations
are encouraged to use the ICS when communicating with schools. |
updates
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Code of Practice on LEA-school relations 2001 annex 4 http://www.dfes.gov.uk/lea/ ICS guidance website Education and young people best practice toolkit |
contacts |
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Cabinet Office, Department for Education and Skills and stakeholders have developed the new Information Classification System (ICS) to help make it easier for head teachers and school staff to access and process information. The ICS is good practice guidance drawn up and tested in the field by practitioners and stakeholders, and is intended as a framework to be adapted locally where appropriate.
The full guidance is now available from the Office of the e-Envoy website
http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/Resources/Guidelines/fs/en
The ICS was launched in September 2002 in partnership as part of a toolkit on education and young people from the Improvement and Development Agency (I&DeA) for local government.
This is available at http://www.idea-knowledge.gov.uk
In December 2000, the Department for Education and Skills and the Cabinet
Office published Making a Difference: Reducing schools paperwork (available
from
http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/regulation
/pst/projects/mad/schools.asp)
During the fieldwork for the project, head teachers expressed a concern that documents they received from government and its agencies were too often unclear as to their purpose, the target audience, the action required and the timescales involved. In solution to this problem, stakeholders from across the education sector have developed the Information Classification System for schools (ICS). The aim is for all general communications with schools to adopt standard principles for information and classification.
The ICS was piloted in three Local Education Authorities and evaluated by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).
The Office of the e-Envoy in the Cabinet Office will lead the continuous improvement of the ICS. The Office has a remit to lead on national metadata policy, and to help meet the targets for electronic services.
Suggestions and feedback on the ICS should be made to
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Public Sector Team, Regulatory Impact Unit, Cabinet Office, 22 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2WH, E-mail: psinfo@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk Crown Copyright 2003. Privacy Policy. W3C HTML 4.01, W3C CSS and Bobby Compliant. |
