Education has always been an important area of statistics and in a post-covid world it may be even more important. The next few years will be key to understanding the impact that covid has had on children in education.
A few months ago we reported that we at the Office for Statistics regulation (OSR) was carrying out an assessment of the Key Stage 4 performance statistics for England, published by the Department for Education, as part of our pre-planned programme of assessments.
The KS4 statistics are badged as national statistics, which means that they have previously been judged to comply with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
