A key principle in the operation of the ISB, as laid out in the ISB Business Plan 07/08, is that

Any work that the ISB carries out or directs should be to provide optimum and immediate benefits to key stakeholders rather than ‘nice ideas for the future’.

In response, an ISB governance model has been developed that takes a view across the whole scope of standards adoption, that is the creation and approval of standards as well as the management of their adoption and delivery of those standards into practice.

Each group identified in this model has a key role to play in governing the effective adoption of standards:

  • CIO Council
    • leads the development and implementation of a common, integrated information strategy across the escs system
    • champions the benefits of using information and technology (IT) to best effect
    • identifies opportunities to pool information assets and resources.
       
  • Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG) Strategy and Architecture unit – ISB secretariat
    • facilitates the ISB strategy in its operational delivery and stakeholder engagement
    • is the 'intelligent customer' for the TSS
    • provides a point of escalation for standards issues that cannot be resolved by the ISB.
       
  • Information Standards Board (ISB)
    • is the escs system-wide authority for all information and data standards
    • develops information standards to help front line delivery
    • improves the use of information to aid learner progression and transition
    • ensures greater efficiency and better outcomes for children and learners.
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