Frequently Asked Questions

Lancashire ROSE (Reports Online for Self Evaluation) is a confidential, secure website produced by Lancashire’s Assessment/Professional Support Teams within the Lancashire School Improvement Service (LSIS) and is for use by both Lancashire and Non Lancashire schools (including children's centres, academies and sixth form centres).  This website is password protected and has been developed to allow schools ease of access to a number of statistical reports and guidance notes for use in self evaluation.  If you have any queries or would like further information on Lancashire ROSE please contact LSIS's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

Access to Lancashire ROSE is available to children centres, schools, academies and sixth form centres and supporting School Improvement officers, advisers and consultants. The level of access granted is dependent upon the requirements of the post, and is guided by an Access Rights Protocol approved by the School Improvement Senior Service Management Team. LA officers, advisers and consultants must sign a Confidentiality Agreement before access can be granted.
 

To request access please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555. 

Some users will need access to more than one school's data, dependent upon the requirements of the role. If you believe you should have access to a school please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

School Improvement's Professional Support Team maintain user access to Lancashire ROSE. If you require access to Lancashire ROSE please contact the please contact the School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

 

If you have any problems in accessing this website it may be that your password has expired or that you have typed it incorrectly.  Before applying for a new password using the 'Forgot your password' link, please make sure the password box was empty before typing in your password and that you entered your password in the correct case. Please note for this request to work, the username and email address should match the one on the system.  If you continue to experience problems in accessing the website please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

Click on the link directly beneath the login point ‘Forgot your password?’ or here.  Here you will be asked to provide your username and email address relevant to this site.  For this to be successful, the username and email address you enter must be the same as that on the Lancashire ROSE system.  If you get an 'invalid username or email address' message or have any other problems accessing ROSE, please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555).

Lancashire ROSE currently requires a separate username and password from other Cerberus systems developed by BT Lancashire Services which use the same username and password. This is due to ROSE being a secure confidential site used only by schools and their advisers.

Developments have been made by BT Lancashire Services to maintain the security of Lancashire ROSE but also to allow this system to interact with other school systems. For example, school users can be set up to allow them to log into the Schools Portal and then follow a link straight to the ROSE website, using only their Schools Portal log in.

Please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

Once you have successfully logged into Lancashire ROSE you will be presented with a welcome page, showing latest news as well as a number of options on a the left hand side tab menu for your navigation of the site. 

School users should then click ‘View Selection’.  This takes the user to a page that shows the projects available to that particular school.  Click on the required project (e.g. Lancashire School Information Profile LSIP), then click on the required report (e.g. 2014/15 LSIP).  Choose 'Open' to read only, or 'Save'.  It is important to save any documents (such as Excel spreadsheets) that you will be making changes to.

Other users will need to select 'School Selection', then click on the required Local Authority (e.g. 888 Lancashire), then click on the required school, then follow the steps above.

Each project provides a range of documents each year. For example, the LSIP provides Technical and Interpretation Guidance Notes to support each Report produced. You will find these documents in the same section as the main reports, with the description 'guidance notes'. Guidance notes will give an explanation of the way you can use the data provided, where the data is sourced from, and how it is calculated. It is recommend that you refer to these documents while reviewing the technical reports.

Where guidance notes are not provided or if you have any further queries please contact School Improvement's Professional Support Team Helpdesk via email pst@lancashire.gov.uk or telephone (01772) 531555.

Reports are updated each year when new data is released. Most assessment data is released the autumn after the summer assessments. For example, Key Stage 2 is assessed in schools in May. Following receipt of new data from the DfE, the Professional Support Team will then prepare the data and update the reports, (the time this takes varies with the complexity of the project) and then publish the reports on Lancashire ROSE. Other projects that collect data directly from schools – such as the Pupil Attitude Questionnaire – will update reports after the year's data has been collected and prepared.

If you are having problems opening the files directly from ROSE, or are experiencing lengthy delays in the files opening, instead first save the files directly to your PC, using the instructions given below, and open from there.

This is easily done by right clicking on the appropriate report and selecting ‘Save As’ highlighting a suitable drive to save to, and giving the file an appropriate name before clicking save.

Alternatively open the file by left clicking on the link, this brings up the ‘Save As’ Window.  Choose an appropriate drive / folder to store your report and click ‘Save’.

Start by opening that particular file, once the file is open click on ‘File’ and ‘Print’ assuring that the correct printer is selected from the drop down menu, and clicking ‘OK’.

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Lancashire ROSE is a confidential website developed by Lancashire School Improvement’s Assessment/ Professional Support Teams to allow individual schools (including children centres, academies and sixth form centres) access to analyses and reports provided by the Assessment/Professional Support Teams from one central location. Access to Lancashire ROSE is free to schools who subscribe to a School Improvement service/project. The Schools' Portal (link) is a secure website also maintained by LCC and provides a single point of access for subscribing schools to a variety of resources necessary to support the management of a school.

Lancashire ROSE is a confidential website developed by Lancashire’s Assessment/Professional Support Teams to allow individual schools (including children centres, academies and sixth form centres) access the analyses and reports provided by School Improvement's Assessment/Professional Support Teams from one central location. RAISEonline is the web based system developed by the DfE and Ofsted to provide interactive analysis of school and pupil performance data.