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I am pleased to announce the launch of version 2 of SP-Bench, our web benchmarking service for SP teams throughout the UK. The main enhancement is that version 2 allows you to benchmark the Outcomes data of your services. Compare your services to like ones from across the UK, find where they are not achieving the outcomes they should, and discover the reasons why.

To begin, simply upload your unaltered long or short term outcomes Excel file on the… Continue

Hopefully you have all heard that SPOCC 7 has been released, to much celebration in the SPOCC team here at OCC, so I can finally take a moment to wish you all a happy 2009 and tell you a little about what we're going to be up to over the next couple of months.

January has already seen the launch of SPOCC and SPOCC.Net 7, after a month's beta testing at Durham, Greenwich and Portsmouth, and we'll be hosting a… Continue

This week we released SPOCC 7 to the three LAs that have volunteered to test the new version before its final release to the rest of the community next month. Along with the testing we do throughout the year, the whole team has spent the last three weeks testing, tweaking and documenting the new features, and we're looking forward to the feedback of the SPOCC 7 pioneers once their tests are completed early in the new year.

In the meantime, we are putting the finishing touches to outcomes suppor… Continue

I am pleased to announce the launch of SP-Bench, SPOCC’s new web benchmarking service. To start using the tool just go to www.spbench.co.uk. Usernames and passwords are being sent out to Lead Officers and other SP officers that have been nominated by them to begin using the service. If you need any additional logins then ask your Lead Officer to get in touch with us!
To use the full power of SP-Bench you’ll either need to be familiar with Excel pivot… Continue

As you can see from the new "Events" tab at the top of every page, SPOCC Social now has an events calendar that we will be using to display the SPOCC training courses that we run here at OCC.

But the events page is not just for us to tell you things, you can add your own events to it and even use SPOCC Social as a way to invite attendees to your event - be it a workshop, group/consortium discussion, or a training day that you have organised for o… Continue