ers to assess if children are seen within statutory timescales, monitor how practitioners manage their workload and determine if help is needed. They also help managers to assess if anything needs to change for the child or young person to receive the right care and support. With regard to evaluation, it was spoken about not just in terms of evaluating goals and objectives but also evaluating practice: “If we don't record the information, how do we know that the outcomes for our care leavers are getting better or getting worse, if we have no form of information or data to evaluate or reconcile what our opinions and objectives are?” (Practitioner) Data consumers use the information in forms to distribute regular and ad hoc reporting in a variety of formats, including dashboards, spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents. They also find the forms valuable for measuring different aspects of the CSC service. The forms on the system allow them to mine and explore data in different ways and look at measurement with a broad context, including monitoring best practice, identifying opportunities for improvement, and reporting on the progress of the service. Questions As well as whole forms, practitioners identified certain elements of forms and particular question types as useful. These included:  Subjectivity – being able to convey detail and context in the data  Flexibility – practitioners value being able to control how they input data  Specific elements/tools – a variety of tools are used to gather data 36 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS Subjectivity Questions which require a score to be assigned, such as identifying support needs on a scale of 1-10, were largely found to be unhelpful (discussed in theme 2 in the Data captured without 