ery plan, but these plans will extend beyond the current financial year and are therefore currently unfunded. We are working with DfE to ensure this work is completed in the next financial year. The final deliverable – the maintenance framework – is complete as a technical product, but incomplete with regard to future support and governance arrangements. We have agreed to provide basic support through D2I for the next financial year, and agreed to continue meeting as a steering group for the same period, to facilitate further work on these challenges. More information on this work can be found in the separate “Future Support Plan” document. All outputs were delivered by March 2024. With the above caveats, we consider this a successful delivery on the original project brief. 8.2. Cost We spent approximately £400,000 less than initially anticipated in delivering this project. This was achieved primarily through identifying more effective delivery routes than initially anticipated. While we recognise above that approximately £100,000 of work remains unfinished from the original brief, this represents a major achievement on the part of the partnership to adapt appropriately during delivery, and to identify better ways of working than we originally envisaged. Including the commitment from D2I and the steering group to continue supporting the project into the next year, so as to ensure time for DfE to consider the outputs and their future value to the sector, we believe this project represents good value for money. 20 8.3. Feedback We also received feedback from project colleagues, research participants, open meeting attendees and DfE colleagues which indicated broad approval of our work, both in how we ran the project and in our project outputs. We note below a selection of 