DFE Requesting access to Bromcom via Wonde

[Jaan]

Anybody else received this request today?

 

Nobody knows anything about it here and as such i won't be approving it......

 

...i hate the these random requests come through via Wonde. There needs to be a more official way of 3rd parties being able to request access in the first place!

 

Rant over

 

cheers

[Steve21]

There's been a recent "updated" request for the DfE attendance via Wonde, but I've not seen a new one.

 

It was just enabling more fields in the older DfE sync

 

Steve

[Jaan]

So at the risk of sounding like a fool, what does this sync with the dfe actually do? We've never approved a dfe request as we didn't initiate the sync in the first place. It just appeared one day.

 

Cheers

[Rob_D]

So at the risk of sounding like a fool, what does this sync with the dfe actually do? We've never approved a dfe request as we didn't initiate the sync in the first place. It just appeared one day.

Cheers

 

As far as I'm aware, its for the collection of regional/national attendance data.

[Steve21]

Daily collection of sessional attendance data.

 

Daily collection of pupil level attendance, along with demographic data and some vulnerable children indicators. Used to support absence pattern and trend analysis locally, regionally and nationally, and to share back with the sector for operational planning and reporting.

 

The DfE will contact you directly when your reports are ready to view. This can take up to four weeks from when you first start sharing daily data.

 

It's part of the DfE reporting - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/share-your-daily-school-attendance-data - as Wonde have the contract to supply the data to them

 

Steve

[andy_b]

Anybody else received this request today?

 

Nobody knows anything about it here and as such i won't be approving it......

 

...i hate the these random requests come through via Wonde. There needs to be a more official way of 3rd parties being able to request access in the first place!

 

Rant over

 

cheers

 

To be honest I would have thought the school would know - it has been fairly well publicsed.

 

It has been an optional return previously but becomes mandatory in september.

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/share-your-daily-school-attendance-data

[Oaktech]

We've been doing it since we all came back from Covid as part of a pilot. The fields have been updated a couple of times, most recently a couple of weeks ago, but yeah, as far as I know it becomes manadatory from September. Ultimately, whilst you can facilitate the connection the decision to decline or accept is probably above your paygrade and needs to be subject to a DPIA.

[Jaan]

To be honest I would have thought the school would know - it has been fairly well publicsed.

 

It has been an optional return previously but becomes mandatory in september.

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/share-your-daily-school-attendance-data

 

Yep you're absolutely right!

 

I've now had a reply from a senior staff members saying: "Sharing of attendance data is statutory from September. So we now have to allow the access."

 

so somebody did know something!