icture of who the child is and how best to work with them. They placed a higher importance on this than the business and practice side of record keeping. The majority of children in care and care leavers participating in this research said they do not know what information social workers or personal advisers write about them. When asked to consider why social workers write about them, children and young people broadly identified three categories: business and practice needs, to understand the child and for safeguarding purposes. However, few children and young people feel that social workers write and record for them which contradicts the view of practitioners in this research who spoke about ensuring that the child’s record was kept for them to access later in life. 38 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS 4.2.2 Theme 2: Understanding problems with recording and reporting data Key insights  No item was considered not helpful to record by practitioners in their work with children and families, rather specific data items are considered useful to collect but unhelpful in certain contexts primarily due to duplication and the use of language  Duplication is apparent in three ways: the information is already in the system and does not change, the data item is collected twice within the same form, and the same information is collected in more than one form  Practitioners felt that due to the wording of some questions, they do not always understand what information they are required to collect for specific data items  The Missing Chapters research reiterates the importance of using jargon free language so children and young people can understand what was written about them should they access their records  Practitioners record information i