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GSS Presentation & Dissemination CommitteeWHAT’S NEW DASHBOARD – JUNE 2016 UPDATE
Progress has been made in the following areas this quarter (April to June 2016). Please see Annex A for who to contact in each Department for more information and Annex B for the detailed returns.
PublishingHSE (template for tables)DWP (gov.uk changes)ONS (enhanced table builder)HSCICSG (content strategy)VOADEFRAMOD (host for apps & visuals)BIS
Content/CommentaryDfT (online quiz)DWP (fact sheets)ONS (new style bulletin)HSCICNHS ScotlandVOAHMRCORR (factsheet)
Training and workshopsDfT (user personas, Python)SG (communicating analysis, data vis)DCLGORR (data science proposal)BISOfsted
Social MediaDfT (launched account)ONS (GDS social media playbook)SG (over 1,000 followers)NRSDEFRA (protocols)ORR
Infographics & chartsHSEDWP (visualising uncertainty)NHS ScotlandNRSMoJOfsted
Reviews/Strategies/GroupsHSCIC (output consultation)NISRA (peer review and communication strategy)DCLG (peer reviews)
GuidanceHSE (infographics)DEFRA (infographics, social media)NISRA
Other HSE DfTSG (communicating analysis awards, blogging)HMRC (cross-govt working)
SoftwareDWP (Stat-Xplore, open data app)SG (R Shiny Server)DCLG (open data app)DFIDOfsted (Python)WG (open data platform)DH (data science hub)
CURRENTLY TRENDING
User engagement (DfT, HSE, VOA, NRS, SG, NISRA)
HSE analysis of user personas NISRA user engagement best practice guide
Data science (DfT, DWP, HSCIC, ORR, BIS, Ofsted, DH)
DfT hackathon
Tableau (MoJ, SG, NHS Scotland, DFID) MOJ first interactive tools
Data visualisation (DCLG, MOJ, DFID, SG, NRS, BIS)
DCLG exploring Inkscape and Scapetoad
CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS
Is awarded to DfT for their online quiz on electric cars
Response rate = 73% (22 out of 30 departments)
For list of non-responders, see Annex A
“Highly commended” goes to DWP for reducing bulletin from 150 pages to 11 pages!!!!
ANNEX A – List of Presentation Champions and PDC Representatives
Below is a list of each Department’s Presentation Champions and PDC Representatives. If you would like to find out more about the work being carried out that is highlighted on the dashboard, please contact the colleagues listed below.
If there are any changes required to the list, please let the Good Practice Team know and keep the information in your “What’s New?” return up-to-date. A list is also kept at the following link:
https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/statistics/presentation-and-dissemination/commentary-champions/
Response rate was 73% (22 out of 30 departments). Responding departments:
Department Presentation Champion PDC RepBIS [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] DEFRA [email protected] [email protected] DWP [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
DfT [email protected]@dft.gsi.gov.uk [email protected]
[email protected] (group Chair)
ORR [email protected]@orr.gsi.gov.uk
MoJ [email protected]@justice.gsi.gov.uk
DH/NHS England [email protected] [email protected] HSCIC [email protected] [email protected] DFID [email protected]
ONSElizabeth.McLaren.gsi.gov.uk [email protected]@ons.gsi.gov.uk [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
Welsh Government [email protected]
Scottish Government [email protected]@scotland.gsi.gov.uk [email protected] NHS Scotland [email protected]
NRS [email protected] VOA [email protected]
[email protected] HMRC [email protected] OME [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Non-responding departments:
Department Presentation Champion PDC Rep
DfE [email protected]@education.gsi.gov.uk [email protected]
Ofqual [email protected] Home Office [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] HMT [email protected]@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk
Cabinet Office tbcDECC [email protected] [email protected]
ANNEX B – Full “What’s New” returns – June 2016
Response rate = 73% (22 out of 30 departments)
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Our CBAS analytical platform has now been rolled out to 160 users Training: Dozens of colleagues have been trained internally in - excel best practice, R, and
HTML 5 and we have expert external contactors providing training in SQL. there is a comprehensive programme of training events scheduled
Training: In addition to having a dedicated mapping role the data science team has held over 20 individual training sessions in the QGIS mapping tools with a number of group training sessions scheduled over the coming months.
Workshop: The data Science and Visualisation Team ran a cross government workshop in conjunction with GDS and DWP on interactive data visualisation using JavaScript, in particular D3.js.
Training: We have held training sessions on Inkscape which is a free open source tool to producing dashboards using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Data visualisation: We have set up an online data visualisation gallery: http://cbas/publications/DataVisualisationGallery/
Seminar: On the 4th July Charles of the ONS will be holding a seminar in BIS on ʺEffective tables and Chartsʺ and attendance on this is now ʺsold outʺ.
Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted)
Ofsted upskilled representatives on infographics and piktochart which is the main website Ofsted uses for creating infographics. An infographics schedule is in place for our upcoming statistical releases.
The data science group has begun work on several projects, including scraping school websites using a Python web scraping package. A briefing was published on findings of a project on coastal schools, which used R and mapping packages to calculate closest distances between schools and the coast.
One member of the data science group has been accepted for the next round of the data science accelerator, working on schools risk assessment and web scraping.
The Data View tool was successfully relaunched in December 2015. More work will take place over the course of 2016 to improve the tool.
Ofsted met with colleagues from ONS in order to link into the publishing/GDS work being taken forward.
Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
A successful season of GSS led training sessions and more informal visualisation 'teach-ins' has concluded. All sessions have been well attended and received positive feedback, driving the potential to run more classes in the near future. Other colleagues within the Department are also keen to use the 'teach-in' platform to present other work related to the innovative presentation of data and statistics.
Groups of statisticians are exploring new visualisation software acquired by the Department (Inkscape, Scapetoad) and working to demonstrate wider to colleagues in near future.
DCLG Open Data App now available across Android and IOS Peer reviews of data visualisations in DCLG stats publications to commence later in summer.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
HTML : Working to develop a small number of rural statistical releases to be published in html format to make it easier to access content alongside more common publication formats such as pdf/A. Html is particularly suited to mobile access and we are exploring the use of bespoke software packages to enable easy transcription to html rather than using the GDS tool which is not ideal for this purpose.
Identifying user needs : We circulate to statistics team a 6 monthly update on web usage figures for statistical content with the ability to undertake more detailed analysis if required. This
information gives the statistician more detailed insight into users and user needs as well as valuable data on overall usage and developing trends. The information comes from our Statistics Dashboard. Based on Google Analytics, this provides a real time view of website usage. We are now being asked by the GPT to promote our dashboard to others. We circulate detailed information annually about queries received in the Enviro-Inbox broken down by topic. This can provide further intelligence on user need and requirements regarding our environment statistics.
Standardisation of data : We are investigating implementing a more standardised approach to formats for data being published by the department. This will make it easier to re-use, to access and to share information both internally, across government and for external users.
Working with comms : Food and Trade stats team published an ‘ad hoc stats release’ entitled ‘Food and Farming at a Glance’. This was a pioneering project for Defra – conceived by Strategic Comms and specifically produced as a briefing document for the media.
Open data :We have a target of unlocking 8,000 data sets by 25 June 2016. By mid-May we had already published 5366 new open datasets. On 28 June we are holding a #DataMarket event for data users and custodians.
Social media and infographics protocols :We are looking to develop, in conjunction with our comms teams, protocols for the use of social media and infographics
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Template for releases: The new template for our statistics has begun to be used by lots of teams across the department. For the poverty statistics releases this is having a real positive impact: it’s reduced the publications from around 150 pages, making the timeliness of the publication better and the risk of typos far lower. We spoke to some of our key “critical friends” about moving to the new release in the next couple of months and received very positive feedback. We have mandated the use of the template – ad hoc analysis is also now released in the new format, ensuring consistency across the department’s outputs, not just the regular statistics releases.
Visualising uncertainty : Our Fraud and Error statistics were released in May, using a good visualisation of the uncertainty around the estimates: there was no media coverage of a spurious difference between two of the series, due to this clear message.
Using APIs: Our Data Science colleagues have created "Churchill". It’s a way to make the communication between policy analysts and policy makers more efficient – by giving policy makers access to published statistics, in an easy-to-use front end they can quickly answer more simple questions or delve into more detail, helping them to better formulate more complicated questions they’ll need help from the analysts about.
Open data on Stat-Xplore: We are drafting a consultation document about ceasing the production of our Tabulation Tool, moving more data onto the Stat-Xplore platform. Stat-Xplore supports the open data agenda far better than the Tab Tool because it offers users the ability to create their own tables, define filers and variables and it has an API. We hope to consult publicly, to inform our prioritisation, within the next quarter.
Gov.uk : We have made changes to our gov.uk statistics landing page. This was informed by some user testing, where we set people tasks to find out information about specific stats and found that the organisation of the page was causing much confusion. We will be presenting this work at the June PDC meeting.
Posters not emails : Our Insight statisticians are trialling a different dissemination technique to support advertising campaigns. Instead of emailing tables of numbers that are unlikely to be read or understood, they are creating fact sheets with commentary about the effectiveness of each campaign, printing them as posters and talking campaign managers through the results. This is helping to engage people and raise the accountability. They are planning to roll this out to all of their Management Information reporting.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
User personas: Analysis of the results from our User Engagement Survey suggest that our user base fits with the current user persona model and that HSE statistics are accessed by a diverse range of users across the three main personas (Inquiring Citizen, Information Forager and Expert Analyst). This suggest that our current statistical release communication strategy of developing a variety of products for use across the available media channels (Twitter, HSE statistics website
etc.) to appeal to different users is the correct approach and allows us to focus on refining those products.
Table formatting: As part of our data warehouse work programme, we have developed a new template for our data tables. This style allows for a more customisable user experience in terms of selecting the data they are interested in while also removing some of the more complex elements that made comparisons difficult for users.
User feedback: As a follow up with some of the users who took part in our User Engagement Survey, we will be asking for feedback on the guidance for using the new table template with a view to improving the user experience before they launch on our statistics page later this year.
Infographics: HSE statisticians have been working with experts within HSE’s Agriculture team to provide advice and guidance on the use of infographics to communicate statistics as part of an upcoming report they will be publishing.
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
We have launched tools.mod.uk (which Adam Beirne demo’d at the symposium). It is designed to host apps and visualisations, which can’t be hosted on gov.uk.
Department for Transport (DfT)
User engagement/social media : We launched our DfTstats twitter feed in March 2016, and since then have sent out 74 tweets, regarding the availability of our statistical series. We now have 261 followers and we’re still pushing to achieve our goal of 1000 followers by next March. In total, the twitter page has received 3200 profile visits. Our top follower in May was NatCen.
User engagement/relationship with DfT strategic coms : We’ve started attending DfT communications directorate weekly Forward Look Grids meetings. We are using these meetings to identify all news/ events / announcements which might be related to our statistics and which we might want to follow up with policy and press colleagues, to raise the profile of statisticians and statistics with coms colleagues and to identify opportunities to work collaboratively with coms colleagues to produce high quality graphics & data analysis in support of DfT’s strategic narrative.
Dissemination/User personas: Our Presentation champions have run a workshop for our J-Stats group (below G7) promoting awareness of the ONS user personas and have started some evaluation of how our products align (which will be followed up in next yrs priorities). They are also working with MoJ to offer a similar session there.
Dissemination/ New approaches to dissemination : We have been developing our HTML skills and have used this to produce an online quiz to support the Go Ultra low policy campaign, which aimed to change people’s perceptions about electric cars. The quiz drew on a variety of statistical sources to challenge users to test how much they knew about electric vehicles.
Dissemination/ Capability & Data science Our data science community participated in the departments first ever Hackathon. Dubbing themselves the DfT Hack Club, the group’s remit was to come up with creative and technical solutions to some knotty DfT questions - ranging from ‘how to best interrogate Hansard data’ to ‘modernising the way we do BICC reporting’. We also been running some popular Python training sessions.
Presentation of official statistics/ promoting best practice within non-statistical teams : We’ve been working with policy colleagues to improve the statistical release accompanying DfT Biofuels statistical series, trying to improve the clarity and ease of use of this complicated statistical area. Open data We’re in the process of moving our publication tables to open data formats. Our open data rep has been exploring the implications of this with other departments that are already using ODS.
Office of Road and Rail (ORR)
Developed a new interactive dashboard to disseminate a monthly dataset received by safety inspectors. Excellent feedback received on its useability and design.
Published two new series of Official Statistics in April (to be released quarterly) to meet internal operational monitoring requirements and to meet external user needs. Developing a factsheet to accompany the qtr 4 (annual) statistics to be published on 16 June.
Submitted proposal for GDS data science accelerator programme.
Continued to work with Comms team to promote our statistics on day the of publication with tweets.
Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
We have developed our first interactive data visualisation tools using Tableau. These are undergoing testing with internal stakeholders including policy and Ministers. Feedback has been very positive.
Department for Health (DH) / NHS England
In addition to work to enhance official statistics, DH has this year implemented a Data Science hub to explore the important interface between core analytical and statistical skills and emerging IT technologies and approaches. Our small data science hub is exploring a number of case study examples, and amongst those have identified some visualisation and presentation examples. Our aim in this work has been to identify the skill and use our findings to disseminate knowledge about how to apply it, so our focus is on capability building rather than developing any single product. We have, however, been able to provide analysts across DH with tutorial examples showing how to produce Sankey diagrams and other tools available via google apps, and an experiment using gapminder software to illustrate some aspects of A&E data. In addition, we have worked with our NHS analyst colleagues in the wider NHS England organisation to develop the infrastructure files needed to support a more innovative approach to mapping and geography. We expect these innovations to have an indirect impact on our approach to dissemination and visualisation over the coming months.
NHS England is rolling out a programme called Right Care which is aimed at improving health outcomes and making better use of finite budgets. This presentation of data has proved critical in helping CCGs identify where to prioritise their efforts. It shows where healthcare is potentially sub-standard by using age/sex standardised data and, most critically, comparing to similar areas. The aim is to save £1.6bn per year by applying the broader Right Care methodology in all CCGs.
We have added four new LA level indicators on abortions data into the PHE Sexual Health Profiles. The Sexual Health Profiles are not official statistics, but the abortions data is sourced from the dataset which feeds from our national stats dataset. This is a really great addition to Sexual Health Profiles of more abortions data to help provide commissioners and LAs with more information to support understand of disparities in provision for abortion and contraception services amongst different groups of women. http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/sexualhealth
o Percentage of abortions in those aged under 25 that follow a birtho Rate of abortions in those aged 25 and overo Percentage of abortions that are medical – under 10 weeks gestation o Percentage of abortions that are medical – 10 weeks and over gestation
A couple of weeks ago we published the annual national statistics publication on abortions, as usual. This year, for the first time, we also included a new table (Table 12e) following a lot of demand in FOIs over the year for data on abortions to residents of the Irish Republic. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/report-on-abortion-statistics-in-england-and-wales-for-2015 Table 12e: Legal abortions: by i) age, ii) statutory grounds, iii) gestation weeks, iv) marital status, v) ethnicity, vi) purchaser, vii) procedure, viii) complications, ix) previous live stillbirths, x) previous miscarriages,and xi) previous abortions, residents of Irish Republic, 2015
On 19 July 2016, we will be publishing the birth ratio analysis report. Although we have previously published this before, there a few key changes taking place in July:
o This analysis will be published an official statistic for the first time. o The ONS in collaboration with Southampton University have just completed a review of
our methodology, which we will be ensuring is implemented in the July report. o We are reviewing the presentation and dissemination following guidance and advice from
the Good Practice Team.
Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
Consultation on all statistical products was launched on 4 April and will run until June 27th. Consultation includes proposals regarding disemination and presentation. Working on new statistical publication template to be live alongside rebranding in August 2016.
Increased involvement from Comms teams in ensuring that statistical outputs are engaging and understandable (see http://www.hscic.gov.uk/article/7101 and http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB20618 )
New 'publication system replacement' project set up with a core aim of improving presentation and dissemination of statistics via our website over the next couple of years.
New Director of Data Science started in March 2016.
Department for International Development (DFID)
Promoting the use of Tableau as a data visualisation tool. A number of events including the Syria Team's presentation to SCS on mapping programme delivery in Syria, Tableau representatives presenting examples of use. The rollout of Tableau licenses to a broader range of users in DFID.
One day of events promoting data disaggregation., linked to the SDGs Leave No-One Behind Agenda. Hosted by the PUSS and Chief Statistician with external speakers.
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
We have improved the PDFs available on the site both in terms of appearance and resilience to meet user feedback.
We have enhanced the table builder we use in our written content to allow the headings to be marked up correctly in HTML so going forward these will be much more accessible.
Contributed to the GDS social media playbook around the themes of accessibility - https://blog.ons.digital/2016/06/02/social-media-accessibility/
Published a new style of statistical bulletin with positive feedback (on-line survey with 178 respondents)http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/marriagecohabitationandcivilpartnerships/bulletins/marriagesinenglandandwales/2013 (The team was tasked with producing a slimmed down bulletin that made the release more consumable)
Article created & published looking at the increase in the number of deaths last year - http://visual.ons.gov.uk/dementiaalzheimers-and-flu-behind-biggest-annual-increase-in-deaths-since-the-1960s/
Welsh Government
Soft launched StatsWales OData platform. EMailed range of interested users. Take the test feature in final development.
Exploring the use of slideshare.net
Scottish Government
Training and development : Ran communicating analysis seminars in Glasgow and Edinburgh for Scottish Government statisticians, social researchers and economists. Included NHS_PHI and NRS. New data visualisation training for SG analysts has been organised through the social research association. Some analysts have already been and more events are planned. (information forager, inquiring citizen)
Open Data : Continuing to develop statistics.gov.scot 5* open data platform to make it easier for users to access the data they need. Training statisticians on how to use the system to publish their data. Working with NHS-PHI and NRS to support them to publish more data onto the system. (expert analyst, information forager. The hope is that other needs can be met by re-using the data in other systems)
Data visualisation : We've purchased a one year subscription to R Shiny Server to pilot the use of it to create interactive visualisations. So far at least three areas are experimenting with it including the excellent NRS baby names data vis - see their update. We've also purchased a
licence for infographic elements (flaticon.com) that we're sharing with analysts. (enquiring citizens)
Awards : We'll shortly announce the winner of our third annual communicating analysis awards. Open to all Scottish Government analysts and NRS. Four entries were shortlisted and our former Perm Sec has chosen a winner. The winner will be announced by our current Perm Sec at an event at the end of June. These events have worked really well before as they start with the shortlisted teams reflecting on their work and what was effective about their communication. It serves to give people ideas, encourages innovation and promotes the great work of analysts. (all 3)
Content Strategy : At the planning stage of a potential project to develop a content strategy for official statistics. Involving NHS-PHI and NRS. Exploring what efficiencies can be achieved by having more concise publications, and if we can better use that time to develop evidence based narratives that tell people what is happening in a particular topic area, rather than reporting on a particular data collection. (all 3)
Twitter : We've taken up Nick Woodhill on his kind offer to help with getting our ScotStat account verified. Our account has now got over 1,000 followers, but we're aiming much higher. (information forager, inquiring citizen)
Blogging : We're exploring whether we can replace our push email system (which we use for user engagement) with a blog. It's looking promising, but we need to engage with users on it next. Our push email system is pretty successful with 3,000 subscribers, and high levels of enagement with email updates (massively better than on Twitter), but the system needs replaced and we feel a blog would be more open and transparent. If this goes ahead we will still allow people to sign up for email updates (either to all updates, or to individual topics e.g. economy) so that they'll know when our blog is updated. (expert analyst, information forager, possibly inquiring citizen too)
Collaborating : We're collaborating with NRS and NHS-PHI in a number of areas as can be seen above. We're looking to achieve efficiencies by sharing systems. E.g. NHS-PHI have been supporting us with Tableau. (all 3) We're also very lucky to now have a Communications and Engagement manager in the team who has joined us from Comms.
NHS Scotland
Our internal Tableau champions have been providing advice to analytical teams on techniques for visualising their outputs to better engage with users. Prescribing data published as monthly experimental statistics as a result of user demand at:http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Prescribing-and-Medicines/Publications/2016-05-17/opendata.asp. Feedback being received from users with a view to improving the quality of the publication.
National Records Scotland (NRS)
Training and user engagement : We have given a number of presentations about this work, focusing on sharing our skills and knowledge, in order to help people in other organisations do work like this. Following this, and growing awareness of our work, a number of people have approached us individually to ask for specific help. We have also met with people from other organisations, including JRF, to learn from what they are doing. Target audience: expert analysts
Data visualisations : We have produced a new data visualisation on baby names for 1974 onwards, which is proving very popular. https://scotland.shinyapps.io/babynames/. We have also re-worked our infographics and data visualisations home page, to make it easier to find everything: http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/stats-at-a-glance/infographics-and-visualisations. Target audience: enquiring citizens
Infographics : We are continuing to produce a range of high quality infographics to accompany our main statistical publications. This is a recent example: http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/nrs-visual/mye-2015-infographic.pdfTarget audience: information foragers
Twitter: We are continuing to tweet about our work (except during the pre-election period), and we are increasingly tweeting about specific 'awareness days' etc, in order to reach a wider audience. This is a good example: https://twitter.com/NatRecordsScot/status/730744447143645184Target audience: enquiring citizens
Valuation Office Agency (VOA)
Published two annual official statistics updates ; Non-domestic Rating Challenges and Changes and Private Rental Market Statistics. The Private Rental Market Statistics publication now includes maps to illustrate rental prices geographically.
We ran a user engagement exercise to gage the interest and requirements of our Private Rental Markets Statistics in April/May and plan to follow up these results with user workshops to better understand the need for the data.
Updated our official statistics gov.uk pages for specific subject areas. They now include easy access to our latest publications and further information on the subject area.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
Published 45 National and Official Statistic releases in this period. We also produced an ad-hoc statistical release on the tax contribution of recently arrived EEA nationals.
Working closely together with the ONS, DWP and the Home Office , the ONS published a note on the difference between National Insurance number registrations and the estimate of long-term international migration. This was a very good example of cross GSS working which Jon Pullinger gave his thanks ʺWhat impressed me most this week was the extent to which colleagues from different departments were supporting each other to ensure we got the best possible analysis from a GSS-wide perspective. Given the intense pressures from all sides this was really commendable.ʺ
Following a user consultation which closed in February, we have published the response document covering the Stamp Duty and Property releases. This resulted in one of our annual publications being dropped which will allow the team to focus on improving their other publications.
Office of Manpower Economics (OME)
Nothing of real significance to report. Given that OME produces no Official nor National Statistics and its workload is dominated by the production of Review Bodies' annual reports to Government, it is unlikely that we will be able to provide meaningful quarterly updates
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)
STEM preparations are underway for 2 engagement events with post primary school children coinciding with math week. Over 20 NISRA STEM ambassadors are involved.
15 publications have been peer reviewed since October 2015 and feedback from authors is extremely positive.
Gov.uk - more staff have been trained to pre-announce statistical releases on gov.uk. Open data - in 2015/16 the percentage of NISRA products with a 3 star rating increased from
16% to 24%. We currently do not have any 4 star rated publications but a target has been set to change this in 2016/17. Datasets in Open Data format have been made available by NISRA statisticians through the NI Open data portal, the NI Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS) website and Departmental / Organisational websites. During 2015/16 NINIS held a series of workshops and seminars to promote the use of NINIS.
NISRA Communication Action Plan : the 2015/16 actions have been implemented and are mostly complete. The production of a User Engagement Best Practice Guide is almost complete and will issue shortly following consideration by the NISRA Methodology Sub-Group. The new NISRA website is at the planning stage. The Communication strategy action plan for 2016/17 and for 2017/18 has been updated and expanded based on feedback from the Senior Manager's Forum.
Monitoring and Assessment Team (UKSA)
In response to the Bean review we are formulating blueprint plans for a new style independent regulatory office with a purpose of instilling public confidence and value in OS. Our focus is on four areas of change in how M&A conducts and report assessments (with a focus on value); develops a clear voice and identity; focuses on methods and deep dives and undertakes broader evaluations.
Stocktake of the Code of Practice which has concluded the need for a review of the scope, content and presentation of the Code. Feedback from our engagement centred around five areas: 1) clarifying the scope and simplifying language; 2) engaging with the digital age; 3) promoting the brand; 4) reviewing the focus of assessment and 5) bringing the Code to life. A relaunch of the Code is envisaged for end 2016/early 2017 alongside the announcement of an outline vision for the new regulatory office.
Good Practice Team (GPT)
Collaboration : i) Working on presentation sub group work programme for 2016/17 - bringing in line to main PDC new work programme. ii) Our GPT short term secondment scheme going well - 3 GSS members have been through the scheme, with 5 more lined up for the rest of 2016. User Persona – N/A.
User engagement : our GOV.UK user metrics analysis circulated. User metric training session organised for 7th July in London. Hoping to repeat in regions. Also working on two invited sessions at the RSS conference in Manchester around user engagement. Our social media user research (into what users want from the GSS on social media) was on hold in May 2016. Looking to get back on track in July 2016. Also looking at creating social media training courses for the GSS (based on collaborating on content being developed by the ONS social media team). User Persona – Enquiring citizen / information forager.
Wider GPT work : our work with the Policy Profession continues, looking to run a joint session at the GSS conference and write guidance based on our '10 things you need to know about statistics course'. Working with Heather Savory on Data Programme. Persona – N/A.
