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IAG - Information, Advice and Guidance – generally applied to careers advice.
ICG - Institute of Careers Guidance.
ICN - Integrated Care Network. National agency to promote partnership between social care organisations.
ICO - Interim Care Order This may be made by the court to protect a child while waiting for a final hearing. It gives time to gather more details about the child’s welfare before making a decision whether to grant a full Care Order.
ICS - Integrated Children’s System. This system aims to bring together manual and electronic recording systems for the assessment framework for children in need and Looked After Children. Also stands for Integrated Care System which is the system of electronic patient registering and recording of contacts used by some (but not all) healthcare professionals.
IDeA - Improvement and Development Agency. National agency to promote modernising public services.
IEP - Individual Education Plan.
ILT - Information and Learning Technology.
IMD - Index of Multiple Deprivation. An official measure used by the government to target regeneration policies to the most deprived areas.
IMP - Imprest. A financial term.
IMT - Information Management Team.
Independent Schools - These are schools which are not funded by the state and obtain most of their finances from fees paid by parents and income from investments. Some of the larger independent schools are known as public schools, while most boarding schools are independent. Further information is available from the ISIS - Independent Schools Information Service.
Inductive thinking - Organising information into concepts, generating hypotheses to be explored and converting knowledge into skills.
Information Sharing Agreement - A signed, individualised, document between Partner Organisations on what information will be shared, with whom, over what period and why it will be shared.
Information Commissioner - The independent body set up to oversee and enforce the Freedom of Information Act, and the Data Protection Act.
Information processing - A sequence of cognitive activities whereby information from the social world (data) is combined with the learner’s knowledge (theories) to produce an interpretation, or mental representation.
Informed Consent - (See also consent) The data subject has been informed that Partners, in order to ensure that they are working with the same person, may share personal information such as name, address and date of birth without the data subject signing an explicit consent form.
INSET - In-Service Training. Professional development for teachers.
Instrument of Government - Legal document detailing the composition of a governing body of a school.
Inter-Agency Communication - Information sharing between agencies – formal and informal, written or oral.
Inter-Agency Working - When more than one agency work together in a planned and purposeful way.
Intermittent workers - Learners who intersperse work with ‘chat’, seek activities where working and talking are simultaneously possible.
Internet - (Often called the Net) A worldwide system of computer networks a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer.
Intra Vires - Within the legal powers of an organisation.
Intrinsic reinforcement - Internal rewards an individual might receive when carrying out a certain action increasing the likelihood of that behaviour being repeated in the future.
Investing in Young People Scheme - A government initiative to help young people make the best of their abilities and to ensure that they all have access to, and are encouraged to take up education or training post 16. This could be in schools, colleges or work-based training.
IRT - Identification Referral and Tracking. Former name for ISA.
ISA - Information Sharing and Assessment – a newer name for IRT.
ISC - Independent Schools Council.
ISCED - International Standard Classification of Education which was initially designed by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) in the early 1970s to serve as an instrument suitable for assembling, compiling and presenting statistics of education both within countries and internationally.
ISIS - Independent Schools Information Service.
ISS - International Social Services.
ISSP - Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme.
ITT - Initial Teacher Training. Most people need to take an ITT course in order to gain qualified teacher status (QTS).
ITT provider - Provider of initial teacher training e.g. college/university, consortium of schools.
The information contained in this glossary has been sourced from various external sites in good faith. Therefore, CYPSP assume no responsibility for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies contained within this glossary.