{"id":32831,"date":"2025-06-13T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/?p=32831"},"modified":"2025-06-13T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:18:58","slug":"administration-189-internal-recharging-description-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/administration-189-internal-recharging-description-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration 189: Internal Recharging Description Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>As part of the transition across to Unit 4 a translation Hub was created to handle input from various Line of Business systems and convert the data from the source external system into the necessary Unit 4 data structure and format.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>One of these systems is the Billing System for Devon Education Services.&nbsp; Unfortunately, in a recent recharging run, we have discovered a key issue with the processing of \u201cinternal Recharging\u201d to Maintained schools, and other internal units, where the current routine creates a posting description which is an amalgamation of multiple line descriptions from several posting lines, all joined together and posted onto each of the lines used to create the amalgamated description.&nbsp; This creates a meaningless and confusing description to the posting. This issue only came to light when a very large and complicated posting run was put through for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The initial recharging run created postings on or around the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> June 2025 which posted with these amalgamated descriptions.&nbsp; Following extensive work to identify the cause of this problem a reversing posting , using the same amalgamated description was posted on 6<sup>th<\/sup> June to reverse out the original postings.&nbsp; Therefore, each Maintained school or other internal unit has a resultant Nil effect of billing on their budget.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This \u201cInternal Recharging\u201d routine has been found to be not fit for purpose and has been discontinued as a channel for recharging Maintained Schools and other internal Units.&nbsp; Urgent work is in hand as a top priority to provide an alternative \u201cInternal Recharging\u201d solution as quickly as possible which will result in meaningful descriptions , on a line for line basis, when recharging our Maintained Schools.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We will provide further details and timescales as soon as we have more firm information to share.<\/em><em>We apologise for any confusion or inconvenience that this episode may have caused and assure you that the matter has our full attention<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the transition across to Unit 4 a translation Hub was created to handle input from various Line of Business systems and convert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 16:28:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32842,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions\/32842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}