ncern about how a child or young person would feel about data recorded about them that they do not want to see: “I’ve got a young girl who’s changed her name by deed poll because she wants to leave that life behind her. On here it had her, I was going to say her new name but it’s nowhere, on the system apart from in the known names previously... I want everything now to be in her new name because [in] whatever I print, she doesn’t want to see her old name. “(Practitioner) Tick box items that often do not ask for or require contextual information were seen as burdensome to social workers who felt that context needed to be provided to children and families: 55 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS “These forms [name of form] are ugly. Why do they have to have boxes? Because I just think, take the boxes out and just have the wording. So sometimes you look at them and they’ve got empty boxes and I think for young people and families they’re quite hard to follow because if you’ve looked at this and there are a few empty boxes it’s like, well, why are they empty?” (Practitioner) On some forms there are no options to make changes, so data is often repeated and duplicated (as shown in theme 2 in the Duplication section). Overall, practitioners described that tick-box answers are not always helpful and the lack of context can often add stress to what a child or young person reads about themselves. More information is needed to explain to children and young people why particular decisions were made, for example adoption/long-term fostering: “I just find it strange. I think there needs to be more narrative in terms of what you’re putting down… Why didn’t I do long-term fostering and I was really happy with my foster carer who I’d been with since bir