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The link is here
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/schools-financial-value-standard-and-assurance-sfvs
if you want to take a look.
The advice on open document format part just points to the Wikipedia
article on odf - I think that the government is wary of advocating a
specific application directly, but the Wikipedia article lists a huge
(and confusing) number of options.
So the problem is that Wikipedia tries to be encyclopedic and the
government appears to want to be impartial, but that could leave users
with no clear idea of what is best. Potentially that could lead to cries
of "where's the MS version."
Perhaps a letter from DCLUG/DCGLUG to Devon and Cornwall local
authorities (and unitary authorities such as Torbay) offering impartial
advice on the most complete and functional office suites supporting the
government standard document format odf, which they could then flow down
to schools. Not sure how to reach the academies though.
Phil
On 19/03/16 10:36, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Good thing. Do you want to write to the Cabinet Office, applauding it?
>
> Does the source have a link to get LibreOffice from, perhaps with advice
> to "ask your IT department to install this Government Standard
> word-processing application in order to conveniently handle these and
> other government forms"? Perahps it should.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 at 10:12 Philip Whateley
> <philip.whateley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:philip.whateley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
>
>Â Â ÂUnfortunately I am not in a position to do that, good as it would be.
>
>Â Â ÂHowever, the next interesting stage will be when Devon County Council
>Â Â Âreceive the document which they then can't open, and we say "it's a
>Â Â Âcentral government standard."
>
>Â Â ÂI'd still be interested in any UK examples of odf only documents. A lot
>Â Â Âof the DfE stuff is available odf and MS, but this was the first time I
>Â Â Âhad seen odf only.
>
>Â Â ÂPhil
>
>Â Â ÂOn 19/03/16 09:49, Eion MacDonald wrote:
>Â Â Â>
>Â Â Â>
>Â Â Â> On 18/03/2016 17:56, Philip Whateley wrote:
>Â Â Â>> I work in IT support a couple of days a week at a local primary
>Â Â Âschool.
>Â Â Â>>
>Â Â Â>> The financial admin. was putting together a SFVS (schools financial
>Â Â Â>> value standard) report for Devon County Council.
>Â Â Â>>
>Â Â Â>> Interestingly the only electronic versions of the standard form
>Â Â Â>> available on the DfE website were pdf (locked, so read only) and
>Â Â Âodt. MS
>Â Â Â>> Word 2016 was (predictably) unable to open the odt so I installed
>Â Â Â>> LibreOffice so she could complete the form.
>Â Â Â>>
>Â Â Â>> I know that a couple of years ago the Cabinet Office mandated odf
>Â Â Âas a
>Â Â Â>> supported format for central government, but this is the first
>Â Â Âinstance
>Â Â Â>> I have seen of it being the only editable version publicly available.
>Â Â Â>> Anyone else seen examples?
>Â Â Â>>
>Â Â Â>> Phil
>Â Â Â>>
>Â Â Â>
>Â Â Â>
>Â Â Â> I would advise you to advise all schools to load LibreOffice to their
>  Â> computers both in admin and scholars
>Â Â Â>
>
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