{"id":69,"date":"2011-11-08T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:35","slug":"links-unreliable-data-on-childrens-services-factcheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2011\/11\/links-unreliable-data-on-childrens-services-factcheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: unreliable data on children’s services (FactCheck)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tweet<\/a><\/span>Channel 4’s FactCheck reports<\/a> on some very shaky data being submitted by local authorities to the Department for Education. After listing a number of figures which varied wildly from year to year, and a response from a DfE spokesman that the numbers were \u201cnot very accurate\u201d,\u00a0reporter Patrick Worrall sums the picture up:<\/p>\n

“So 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The data is important, Worrall points out, because it will be used as part of the way that money is reallocated to the new academies.<\/p>\n

“Many councils\u2019 complaints, made plain in responses to an ongoing government consultation, hinge on DfE\u2019s use of S251, a document it has variously described as \u201cunaudited\u201d, \u201cflawed\u201d and\u201dnot fit for purpose\u201d.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, the post fails to link to either the flawed data, the consultations, or any of the other evidence it mentions – which would allow others to dig further.<\/p>\n

Can you can help find those links?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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