Exploration of Information Use Practices

Background: The Practice Framework

 

As part of the Children’s Information Project, we have used our work with local authority sites to develop a draft Framework to help us think about what ethical and effective use of children’s information might look like. 

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A Framework for the implementation of ethical and effective information use

 

Detailed learning and examples of Practices of Information Use from our four local authority project partners can be found in our report.

In this final year of the project, we are further refining the Framework through discussion with children, families and practitioners, and by gathering learning from examples of ethical and effective information use taking place in local authorities and other key organisations.

The Call for Evidence

We would like you to share any examples of your local authority or organisation’s work relating to one or more of the four core goals for ethical and effective information use contained in our Framework. This includes:  

  1.  Activities to integrate children’s, young people’s, families’ or practitioners’ voices within the information that you collect and use
  2. Ensuring that information collected helps you understand children and young people’s needs
  3. Making the best use of available information
  4. Ensuring appropriate action and learning is based on information collected

This is an opportunity to influence discussion and share examples of good and innovative Information Use Practice from your authority or organisation with national government and policy makers.

We are especially interested in examples where you are proud of how this has helped to achieve one or more of the four core goals outlined above.

The submissions will:

  • provide further examples of Information Use Practices to better illustrate the Framework, for inclusion in written outputs and presentations from the project. 
  • enable us to explore cross-cutting themes about use of the different Information Use Practices (e.g., enablers and challenges, patterns in the use of information)

We may also invite you to participate in an online focus group with other local authorities and organisations to consider some of these themes and how we can further develop and refine the Framework. 

More information is provided on the Participant Information Sheet.

The Principal Researcher is Professor Leon Feinstein in the Department of Education, University of Oxford.

If you have any questions, please contact Georgia Hyde-Dryden from the research team who is leading this part of the research (Georgia.Hyde-Dryden@education.ox.ac.uk)  

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