n our recording systems or about families not already known to [Early Intervention Teams] - this can help with decision making” [Early Intervention Practitioner] In this sense, we found that the TFD can give information to practitioners to inform decisions that might not have been possible otherwise. For example, a Social Care worker described using the TFD to investigate whether an unaccompanied asylum seeking child they were working with was “actually supposed to be living at [an] address [and] try and unpick what was going on and if someone trying to exploit them was living there”. Social Finance Limited +44 (0) 20 7770 6836 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ socialfinance.org.uk 26 The TFD can be effective at identifying hard to find children that isn’t possible using other systems Triage practitioners emphasised the effectiveness of the TFD’s search function in retrieving children with minimal identifiable information in referrals. A Triage practitioner shared an example where a referral lacked specific information, except for the child's school name visible on their jumper. Using the child’s name, the name of the school and their location, the advisor successfully identified the child using the TFD. This type of task is deemed impossible using other databases, since they don’t have access to the additional datasets to enable identification in this way. Another practitioner highlighted that the TFD could help trace children where families may use multiple names or have changed address frequently. As one practitioner described; “Sometimes it just gives you that added extra piece of information because it's drawing from other sources that we may not ordinarily use.” [Triage Practitioner] Information and notifications provided by the TFD enable timelier responses The h