Analysis into how we expect lead providers and schools to interact with the information on who is an ECT's LP and DP

[claire-hughez]

Why?

If we ask schools for partnerships info (LP and DP) or information on non-standard induction (the ECT or mentor is part-time, starting on a certain date, etc) we need to consider how lead providers would interact with those changes.

In particular, we need to think about how they would over-write those or handle them when those changes happen. Would they need to instruct schools to tell us? Would we allow them to make edits and over-write it on the API?

It's important to get this right and that it's communicated clearly to both schools and lead providers who can update or change this information.

What?

• Write analysis considering options for how lead providers should interact with school-submitted partnerships or non-standard inductions over the API
• Consider 'expressions of interest' for school-submitted partnerships - consider what if the partnership is reported before the expression of interest
• Consider the point we'd allow partnerships to be submitted
• Consider school-submitted info constituting the partnership
• Could make diagram of events
• Consider impact of schools changing lead provider/delivery partners and how those participants would be surfaced over the API
• Write recommendations for next steps of how to progress this work with the LPDOB team
• Find out if relationships are confirmed by LPs before they're shown their data (ask Nathan?) - (No they aren't - Tony)

Partnerships are when lead providers report they're working with a school. Relationships are when we have someone that has transferred schools and keeping their lead provider from their old school and it's different. The relationship is decided by DFE. Or weird circumstances when someone is doing different training at the school.

We could still consider the school-submitted info constituting the partnership. But worries about lead providers seeing PII they didn't from schools being inaccurate. But LPs could also be inaccurate on the partnership.

How can we decrease ambiguity of who they're working with?

Out of scope

Helpful links or other information

Look through conversations and comments on these changes to the API here.

[claire-hughez]

I think we should include thinking through: about how Register will handle providers reporting partnerships if there are no ECTs registered / a different provider