Management Information Sheet
Update and Interim Advice on the use of Perspective
Perspective
If you have not yet had a look at Perspective please do. It replaces the Norfolk Self-Evaluation Scheme for schools. Guidance on how to access the software is available here. The guidance includes how to access your login and password.
A new release of the software will be made available this month to add new functionality that we hope will benefit all schools. Click here for details of the developments.
Outstanding Issues
Links to Ofsted
Perspective has been designed to allow you to press a button and submit your completed SEF to Ofsted. It has also been designed to import SEFs already submitted to Ofsted. This development has been constructed in accordance with Ofsted requirements. Unfortunately Ofsted are still to sign off these requirements and so the functionality cannot yet be enabled. The producers of Perspective and the Local Authority are communicating with Ofsted on the matter.
Until Ofsted make the functionality available, please use the facilities within Perspective to produce an electronic (or paper) version of your completed SEF for forwarding to Ofsted.
Part B, Section A of the SEF
All parts of the SEF can be completed through Bite Size Questions. Bite Size Questions A1 - A16 in Part B, Section A of the SEF relate to basic details about your school e.g. name, address, name of headteacher etc.
So that you do not have to maintain this data twice Perspective pulls the data from the DfES' Edubase system. This is a database that the DfES has invited you to maintain. Unfortunately we are aware that many schools have not kept Edubase up to date and so Perspective appears out of date. You cannot update Edubase through Perspective and so if any of this data needs to be updated your options are:
If you have not yet had a look at Perspective please do. It replaces the Norfolk Self-Evaluation Scheme for schools. Guidance on how to access the software is available here. The guidance includes how to access your login and password.
A new release of the software will be made available this month to add new functionality that we hope will benefit all schools. Click here for details of the developments.
Outstanding Issues
Links to Ofsted
Perspective has been designed to allow you to press a button and submit your completed SEF to Ofsted. It has also been designed to import SEFs already submitted to Ofsted. This development has been constructed in accordance with Ofsted requirements. Unfortunately Ofsted are still to sign off these requirements and so the functionality cannot yet be enabled. The producers of Perspective and the Local Authority are communicating with Ofsted on the matter.
Until Ofsted make the functionality available, please use the facilities within Perspective to produce an electronic (or paper) version of your completed SEF for forwarding to Ofsted.
Part B, Section A of the SEF
All parts of the SEF can be completed through Bite Size Questions. Bite Size Questions A1 - A16 in Part B, Section A of the SEF relate to basic details about your school e.g. name, address, name of headteacher etc.
So that you do not have to maintain this data twice Perspective pulls the data from the DfES' Edubase system. This is a database that the DfES has invited you to maintain. Unfortunately we are aware that many schools have not kept Edubase up to date and so Perspective appears out of date. You cannot update Edubase through Perspective and so if any of this data needs to be updated your options are:
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1. The best solution, if you can wait, is to leave the data as it is until the end of September by which time we will have the functionality to update all of the data and will do so automatically. NB this will not change the data in Edubase only in Perspective.
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2. E-mail cswebteam@norfolk.gov.uk with the details of which fields you need to be updated and what the correct entries should be. We will then correct the data in Perspective manually for you. NB this will not change the data in Edubase.