2020/21 highlights

• We published our first Rapid Review in response to the pandemic, endorsing ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey COVID-19 questions (April 2020)
• We published our review: Strengthening the quality of HMRC’s official statistics
  (April 2020)
• COVID-19 surveillance and registered deaths data review stressed need for trustworthiness and responding to changing data needs (April 2020)
• Adult Social Care Statistics: GB Summary Report highlighted common challenges and good practice, presenting our priorities for action (April 2020)
• 14 Rapid Reviews and 33 Compliance Checks published
• Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP confirmed improvements to COVID-19 testing data following concerns we had raised (June 2020)
• 323 casework cases opened. Our 2019/20 Annual Review of Casework confirmed April-June 2020 as our busiest period on record.
• We published Presenting estimates of R by government and allied bodies across the United Kingdom (June 2020)
• We published our 5-Year Strategic Plan (July 2020)
• Exploring the public value of statistics about post-16 education and skills: UK report looked at how accessible the statistics are and whether they inform the big picture (July 2020)
• We published our first report on: The state of the UK’s statistical system and shared with the GSS in the first of a new series of OSR webinars (July 2020)
• We published Mental Health Statistics in England which explored why good statistics are important and made recommendations for improvement (September 2020)
• We published guidance on unlocking the value of data through onward sharing and making changes to statistical methods (October 2020)
• Our Business Demography Assessment had support from the National Statistician for reviewing 70-year old legislation to optimise the benefits of the Inter Departmental Business Register (October 2020)
• We published guest blogs offering perspectives on the world of statistics and data, including one from Andy Haldane on How to solve a puzzle like productivity (November 2020)
• 5 Assessment Reports published and 3 new National Statistics
• We initiated preemptive discussions with producers of health statistics about our expectation for the development of vaccine statistics across the UK (December 2020).
• We published research paper: The Public Good of Statistics: What we know so far (December 2020)
• 2000th follower on Twitter (January 2021)
• 7 Systemic Reviews completed
• We published draft guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex in official statistics (February 2021)
• We published Statistical leadership: Making analytical insight count (February 2021)
• We published Ensuring statistical models command public confidence: Learning lessons from the approach to developing models for awarding grades in the UK in 2020 (March 2021)
• We published Reproducible Analytical Pipelines: Overcoming barriers to adoption (March 2021)