Education: Focused Best Value Review (BVR) - Live Training

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Focused Best Value Review Schedule

The focused Best Value Review involves several sessions concentrating on the use of more mature areas of the system. This gives the Local Authority some flexibility to review areas of concern to them:

• SEND - 1 day on site
• CSS with SEND focus - 1 day on site
• Write up - 2 days remote
• Project Management - ½ day

To enable the Knowledge Specialist to gain an insight into your system ahead of their visit, reports are provided to establish usage of MRI Education.

Each on-site session follows the same format:

Required Personnel

• The Local Authority to provide representatives of all the business processes supported by the department/service. This is to enable the Knowledge Specialist to understand:
  • the extent of the module usage
  • the business processes it is used to support and those that it does not.

Best Value Review Agenda

• Establish background and context.
• Understand the main business processes
• Understand the users views of the software:
• what it does well for them
• where it works less well
• where it fails to help them
• Review the module usage by establishing which areas of functionality are being used and how effectively they are being used to support the business processes.
• Review what reports, and letters are generated from the system, how they are used and whether they meet the needs.

Best Value Review Report

• MRI Education will then provide a Best Value Review report which will:
  • Review the existing use of the individual modules
  • Establish what has been achieved so far in the systems
  • Highlight existing good practice
  • Recommend ways in which these areas may be used more effectively
  • Identify areas for development as a basis for future planning