Identifying opportunities to solve common challenges between DfE, the sector and MIS suppliers.

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        "description": "The Department for Education is keen to work with MIS suppliers to better understand how data is being utilised by the sector, explore how we can harness the potential of data and improve outcomes for children, parents and carers. We are also keen to understand the market's ability to amend functionality of their systems that enables the Department to gather the relevant data as it continues to develop its future policies.\nExamples of discussions the Department is keen to have are listed below.\n•\tBreakfast clubs:\no\tThe Government is committed to establishing free breakfast clubs in all primary schools. Breakfast clubs remove barriers to opportunity by ensuring primary school children are well prepared with a supportive start to the school day. Through the Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill, we are legislating for a requirement for all state-funded schools in England with primary-aged children to provide a free breakfast club.  We are currently running an early adopter scheme to test and learn what works to implement free breakfast clubs ahead of national rollout.\no\tAs part of this test and learn phase, we want to explore how data on attendance at free breakfast clubs can be recorded and captured through MIS.  We invite MIS suppliers to attend a briefing to find out more and provide feedback on 1st October 2:30pm-3:30pm. \n•\tKS3 & SEND:\no\tWhat are the challenges and opportunities to improve how data is being utilised by the sector regarding both KS3 and SEND data.\no\tHow can schools and trusts more easily bring different datasets together and use more advanced analysis to better support their students.\nWe are interested in speaking to MIS suppliers who are currently engaged within the education sector.\nIt is essential that we speak to someone who understands the technical or operational aspects of MIS and is aware of the data challenges and data ecosystem in the sector.\nFormat of discussions:\nThe format for discussions will differ depending on the policy area. For the areas above the following formats will be used.\nBreakfast clubs:\n30-minute webinar hosted by the Department with a follow-up survey for attendees to complete.\nKS3 & SEND:\nAn informal 60-minute individual research interview (via Teams) at a time that suits you before the end of October 2025.\nThere will be a standard agenda for each session, and the same questions will be asked of each participant. Sessions will be recorded for our own audit and transparency purposes.\nHow to participate:\nIf you are interested in participating, please complete this form URL: \nhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=yXfS-grGoU2187O4s0qC-eD2BfQQce5LvLd3m8ExTnNUOEpWS1hNMDc4RDU2NE5BT09BSE43RFlQMS4u."
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