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Synthetic working data

Explore the starter data

We used AI-assisted research to investigate the published sources, then created 20 non-sensitive synthetic records shaped by what those sources expose. It is starter data for exploration—not real service data or evidence.

Read the note on this dataset

Twenty invented quarterly rows standing in for course activity in a custodial learning service, with five course types, a banded number of enrolments, and a banded completion rate. No published source reports either figure by course.

Every record in the file

Inspect, compare, understand

Use 20 synthetic quarterly rows across five course types to explore next-resource choices without learner records. Switch views without losing the description, source file, or limitations on this page.

SYN-OL-01Essential skills: literacy2025-Q150-10040-60%
SYN-OL-02Essential skills: literacy2025-Q250-10040-60%
SYN-OL-03Essential skills: literacy2025-Q320-5060-80%
SYN-OL-04Essential skills: literacy2025-Q450-10040-60%
SYN-OL-05Essential skills: numeracy2025-Q120-5040-60%
SYN-OL-06Essential skills: numeracy2025-Q220-5040-60%
SYN-OL-07Essential skills: numeracy2025-Q320-50under 40%
SYN-OL-08Essential skills: numeracy2025-Q420-5040-60%
SYN-OL-09Digital skills2025-Q120-5060-80%
SYN-OL-10Digital skills2025-Q250-10060-80%
SYN-OL-11Digital skills2025-Q350-10040-60%
SYN-OL-12Digital skills2025-Q4over 10060-80%
SYN-OL-13Employability2025-Q150-10060-80%
SYN-OL-14Employability2025-Q250-100over 80%
SYN-OL-15Employability2025-Q350-10060-80%
SYN-OL-16Employability2025-Q4over 10060-80%
SYN-OL-17Open University access module2025-Q1under 20over 80%
SYN-OL-18Open University access module2025-Q2under 2060-80%
SYN-OL-19Open University access module2025-Q3under 20over 80%
SYN-OL-20Open University access module2025-Q4under 2060-80%
Synthetic working data

AI-assisted research helped identify and interpret the published sources. We then created a small, non-sensitive synthetic dataset shaped by the information those sources expose. It is for exploration—not evidence, training, or operational decisions.

Method note

How it was prepared

AI authored fictional banded enrolment counts and completion rates for each course type.

Conditions for use

What this dataset cannot tell you

  • Enrolments and completions by course are not published, so the two most useful columns here have no published counterpart at all.
  • The bands are invented, so nothing here describes learning in any prison.
  • A course-level table cannot hold what actually decides things in custody: what is running this week, who is allowed to attend, and whether a sentence is about to end.
  • It is invented. No record describes a real person, place, case, or measurement, and no result computed from it is evidence that anything works in a live service.