{"id":290,"date":"2011-12-14T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=290"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:23","slug":"new-found-access-to-unreliable-childrens-services-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/new-found-access-to-unreliable-childrens-services-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Unreliable Children&#8217;s Services Data&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/new-found-access-to-unreliable-childrens-services-data\/\" data-text=\"Access to Unreliable Children&#8217;s Services Data&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2011%2F12%2Fnew-found-access-to-unreliable-childrens-services-data%2F&#038;text=Access%20to%20Unreliable%20Children%26%238217%3Bs%20Services%20Data%26%238230%3B\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>In early November, <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/links-unreliable-data-on-childrens-services-factcheck\/\">Paul blogged about local authorities submitting shaky figures to the Department for Educatio<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/links-unreliable-data-on-childrens-services-factcheck\/\">n<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.channel4.com\/factcheck\/how-dodgy-stats-could-decide-our-childrens-future\">as reported on the Channel 4 blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Paul quoted and Patrick Worrall stated;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo to recap, these spending figures don\u2019t actually reflect the real amount of money spent; figures from different councils are not comparable with each other; spending in one year can\u2019t be compared usefully with other years; and the government doesn\u2019t propose to audit the figures or correct them when they\u2019re wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the key issue was that there was no link to the flawed data, stopping further investigation, but now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/schools\/adminandfinance\/financialmanagement\/schoolsrevenuefunding\/section251\/b00197958\/s251-workbooks-budget-2011-12\/b\">the individual Workbook budgets are now available online<\/a> on education.gov.uk, broken down by their area.<\/p>\n<p>The data is openly accessible and viewable by local authority, offering the opportunity to look at which areas have submitted data with falsities, mistakes or miscalculations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth taking a look at if you&#8217;re curious and want to investigate further, or want to see the stats from your local area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetIn early November, Paul blogged about local authorities submitting shaky figures to the Department for Education, as reported on the Channel 4 blogs. As Paul quoted and Patrick Worrall stated; \u201cSo to recap, these spending figures don\u2019t actually reflect the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/12\/new-found-access-to-unreliable-childrens-services-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,9],"tags":[40,35,36,46,38,132,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}