ul for practitioners ........................................................................... 7 Theme 2: Understanding problems with recording and reporting data................................................................. 8 Theme 3: Data we do not collect that could be useful .......................................................................................... 9 Theme 4: Information that is helpful to the wider local authority ........................................................................ 9 Theme 5: Voices of children and young people .................................................................................................. 10 Key messages .............................................................................................................................. 10 Key message 1: Record keeping is an essential part of ‘good’ social work ........................................................... 10 Key message 2: Duplication, jargon and design problems can be a blocker to collecting data ............................. 11 Key message 3: The number of data items does not correlate to the amount of data recording taking place...... 11 Key message 4: The data serves multiple purposes, some of which do not align ................................................ 11 Key message 5: Access to records should be simpler.......................................................................................... 11 Key message 6: There is an opportunity to collaborate with other research projects.......................................... 12 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................. 12 Section 2: Key messages and recommendations ............................