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It is definitely still happening, I've come across 2 examples very recently. It's well worth reading about the expectations of the ICO around what schools should be doing to prevent this (particularly policies and staff training) in the reprimand they gave a primary school last year: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/parkside-community-primary-school/

If you enjoyed 'Colin from Accounts' then I can thoroughly recommend another Aussie sitcom 'Fisk': Fast-paced comedy about high-end contracts lawyer Helen Tudor-Fisk, who is forced to take a job at a shabby, suburban law firm following a humiliating marriage breakdown and a professional fall from grace. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13353168/plotsummary?item=po5507745 I binged the first season very quickly and am partway through the second. It's making me laugh anway! S1 is on Netflix while S1 and S2 are on ITVX. Another Aussie series well worth watching is Black Snow - a drama this time about a murder cold case. Shown on BBC4 recently but deserved a wider audience.

An ex-colleague of mine always said 'pacific' for 'specific' (I think that's quite a common one).

When you run an Excel report without a user template attached, it uses Reportdata.xls to create the output. If you create your own template by modifying the code in a copy of Reportdata.xls and then attaching that to the report, when you run the report it creates a copy of that template and calls it Excellist.xlsx and uses that instead of Reportdata.xls to create the output. With both methods the data that is output is stored in a text file called Reportdata.txt. You can test your Excel template by putting it in a folder alongside the Reportdata.txt that has been output when running the report (make sure you take a copy immediately after running otherwise it may 'disappear') and then opening the template. This will also allow you to step through the code to see if something is causing it to error or shut down. In fact this method makes it much easier to modify and test the template without constantly having to keep attaching it to the report in SIMS and re-running it.

It's weird, we spend a good part of the weekend just watching the live stream of the queue filing past the coffin - it was strangely comforting, fascinating and rather hypnotic. The cameras always seemed to be on the lookout for scouts and anyone in uniform (particularly those with medals and/or a military beret). Am quite missing it now

Sorry I cannot answer Q1, but yes to Q2 - I used it a few months ago for a SAR and found it extremely useful, much better than a Sharpie and paper copies! You first mark the text and/or whole pages for redaction, but it's not until the next step that it actually carries out the redaction, so you can save a copy in between. It also lets you move pages around easily, add a watermark, page numbering etc. I also added blank pages between each document or email trail to make it easier to manage (as they were all combined into one long file).

Is the report a predefined one supplied by ESS? Capita training data for many years included year groups with 2 spaces after 'Year'. If they created a report and left the tick in against one of these, then it would retain that when imported into your SIMS reports.

More here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-investigate-ess-s-move-to-three-year-contracts-for-schools https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-conduct-of-education-software-solutions-limited

Covid must be giving similar symptoms to flu in those cases - the one time I know I had flu, I couldn't get out of bed for a week and everything ached, including my teeth.

Having just finished the last book (Leviathan Falls) in the Expanse series, I understand why they stopped it where they did, but think that introducing Laconia at this late stage was a bit pointless and must have been confusing for anyone not familiar with later storylines. It does point to possible episodes being made in future though I guess.

Ah, just seen that in the definition document it does qualify this, saying: Details of the locations of any overt CCTV surveillance cameras operated by you or on your behalf. You should decide on the level of detail which is appropriate. This could be by building or more general geographic locations, eg postcodes or partial postcodes, depending on the security issues raised.

The ICO have just published updated schemes on their website regarding the information that schools and academies should make available (either on website or copy on request) under Freedom of Information. It's about time, as the previous scheme for schools was dated from 2013. Some 'interesting' additions - more on data protection to be made available, in particular DPIAs and policies around data protection and data retention. The one that surprised me was CCTV - it says 'Details of the locations of any overt CCTV surveillance cameras operated by us or on our behalf'. Isn't that helping anyone who wants to break in? P.S. Although the ICO's website has really useful information, I have a real issue with the fact that they don't actually tell you what's been updated and when, which means you've no way of knowing what has actually changed in the text or in documents. This actually goes against their own advice on having document control in place for policies etc.

Just wondering how those who have moved away from SIMS to a cloud based MIS have coped with continuing to access the SIMS data. Presumably not all the student info is transferred - there must be many leavers going back years whose data still needs to be retained but wouldn't be transferred over? How do you handle access, or do you export as much info as possible out and store it that way?

So what happens if a school has gone ahead and asked for consent for all sorts of things they didn't need to - the ICO say that once you have used consent as the lawful basis you can't usually change it to a different lawful basis?

Did anyone else think: Ship of Theseus = Trigger's Broom!!