>>obilgi+(OP)
Having worked close to the department for education in the past it's refreshing to see a strategy that was implemented by employing smart people and giving them enough rope to actually do what was needed, rather than outsourcing to one of big suppliers (the DfE has been far too close to Capita over the last decade or so) and letting them bleed the pot dry with project management and consultancy fees (at one Capita run front-line strategy project that shut down not so many years ago the developers were allowed to quit as full time employees and instantly start back as contractors earning roughly three times as much).
I wonder if it's a coincidence that this project appears to be blossoming while almost every large project I saw that was outsource either massively underachieved or was just buried after huge loses (schoolsweb for example).