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The common use is a yearly agent that reads the ICT spending of each school client and writes it to the client’s record in your PSA.
Automatically enabled when you configure DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights permissions in your agent workflow.

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What it does

  • Lists the returns and years DfE publishes: CFR for maintained schools, AAR for academies
  • Reads up to 500 schools in one call by URN, from the newest returns or a year you name: each ICT line by its code (such as E20G IT support), the ICT total, and the school’s pupils
  • Reads an academy trust’s central services spending by company number
  • Says when a school has no row, did not supply its return, or is in a federation whose figures sit on its lead school
DfE’s returns are open data, so Neo sends no key. Neo keeps what it reads from a yearly file for six hours. A call that finds no kept copy reads the whole file and can take about 30 seconds; a call within the six hours takes a second or two. An agent reads many schools in one call.

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Permission groups

Every profile (Read Only, Helpdesk, IT Admin, Full Automation) reads this group.

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Setup

See Connecting DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights to Neo.