This year Ofsted's annual Tellus survey of children's perceptions of local services will not collect the postcodes of respondents. This means England's local authorities, which use Tellus to help them with their Ofsted annual performance assessments, will not be able to identify which services children say are working well, and which are not.
The government announced last week in the Staying Safe Action Plan it would use Tellus to help meet targets on children's safety by asking children about their thoughts on and experiences of bullying. But without postcodes local authorities would be unable to evaluate their individual services.
Deb Tyler, remodelling adviser at Newcastle City Council's children's services, said: "It's very frustrating when data has been collected at a national level when with just a bit of tweaking it could have been used at a local level."
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