eguarding windscreen” online for more local examples, or ask a colleague for your LA’s version What local authorities do Local authorities (LAs) interpret the national framework to implement locally-owned policies and procedures for delivering and monitoring local safeguarding services. As such, different LAs can follow different practice models. They do this in partnership with other local services, all of whom share responsibility for keeping children safe and responding to risks. Typically, the LA operates a “front door” service for local services and residents to report concerns. The service performs triage and either signposts enquiries to relevant non-CSC resources, redirects to early help or similar services, or accepts a referral to CSC, depending on local service thresholds. The support spectrum is often visualised as a “windscreen”. Within CSC, service leaders and team managers for different areas of practice (or locality) will supervise as social workers support a caseload of several individual children and/or sibling groups, seeking to understand their risks and support needs, and manage a plan for keeping them safe and helping them achieve appropriate outcomes. The wider organisation, including IT, HR, corporate performance, finance, data and intelligence services, and others, will seek to manage the CSC service to keep children safe and keep the service affordable. To do this, stakeholders rely on accurate and insightful information to guide their attention to the service areas requiring attention. 9 3. How CSC data works Local safeguarding practice generates a complex and complicated range of data, much of which – but not all – is stored in a local case management system (CMS) and interrogated using a range of reporting tools. Local reporting must provide