 appendix three. Key insights from this work have been woven throughout the findings section of this report. Ethical approval Ethical approval was sought and granted both by the lead LA’s research governance committee and the ARU School of Education and Social Care ethics panel to enable data collection and analysis to take place across phases one and two. The permission granted by the lead LA allowed user researchers and project workers to recruit participants and conduct data collection. The subsequent approval from ARU gave permission for the academic researchers to conduct an analysis of raw anonymised data to develop a high- level report. Consequently, all local authorities have been anonymised in this report using the codes LA1, LA2, LA3 and LA4 as appropriate. 25 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS 3. Practice Context This section provides an overview of the Children Looked After (CLA) practice context across the four local authorities involved in the research. It is important to note that CLA services are referred to differently across the LAs. Four different phrases can be seen below:  Leaving Care and Children Looked After  Children in Care (CiC)  Children Looked After  Looked After Children For the purposes of this research, we are using the term ‘Child Looked After’ as used by the DfE, but in describing the context below, we use the language used by the individual LAs. The information provided in this section outlines the range of approaches and support across the LAs to provide an overview, rather than specific information for each LA. The structure of Children Looked After services The structure of LAs is dependent on a number of factors, including their size, the needs of their geographical areas and allocated funding