ng person.” (Early Intervention Practitioner) "I used to spend a lot of time methodically going through the 30 names, emailing people, and checking all the details, but it took up so much of my time that I kind of stopped doing that." (Early Intervention Practitioner) We didn’t find a similar pattern with use of the NEET model. However, whilst it would be logical to assume that stratified data on risk might lead to time-saving, we were unable to find examples of school staff teams using the NEET in a proactive way that might enable these efficiencies. 5.4.3 Service planning There was some evidence of examples where risk models could be useful in supporting service planning, but this has become less prominent Through our conversations with practitioners, we heard of some examples where risk models could be useful in supporting service planning. Cohorts who were identified at risk were routinely aggregated, allowing for analysis at a locality, ward or school level, which informed decision making around resource allocation and redistribution: “Where I found it more helpful is to use it at that kind of commissioning and strategic level where we think about children at a population level to understand vulnerability and harm over a population and a group or a school or an area to target resources… that risk modelling is much more nuanced.” (Senior Manager within Children's Services) We also heard of one example where an aggregation of the CCE model was used to support the Police’s decisions about which schools to allocate officers to. Social Finance Limited +44 (0) 20 7770 6836 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ socialfinance.org.uk 47 However, as with the wider use of the models, as there has been a reduced perception of their effectiveness, we heard few recent examples of th