 practices like Agile, and some DfE resources for user research. Foundations - Evidence Driven Change Making “What Works Centre” for Children and Families, providing research and evidence to support local service delivery. 24 References: networking opportunities This page contains few links – if you are employed in a local authority or equivalent children’s services role, you can contact us for more information about any of the below. Regional performance groups and NPIMG Each of the nine English regions operates a regional performance network for CSC data leads. The nine chairs of these groups meet quarterly as a national group called NPIMG. This helps regions stay in touch and share good practice, as well as ensuring information reaches as many colleagues as possible. D2I open house, RIIA workshops, EH workshops Data to Insight run a range of regular workshops open to all LA colleagues. The “open house” is a show-and-tell for current D2I work, which we open to all colleagues to attend and contribute to design and learning discussions. The RIIA and EH workshops discuss national findings from quarterly benchmarking data collections. D2I slack Data to Insight operates a free Slack workspace for LA data professionals to connect and ask each other for support. The community also serves as a beta testing group for new versions of D2I’s data tools. D2I also maintains a social media presence at https://www.linkedin.com/company/datatoinsight/ and https://twitter.com/datatoinsightUK, sharing news about DfE data publications, D2I tool updates, and wider sector initiatives of interest. D2I newsletter D2I sends a newsletter to several hundred LA colleagues, usually containing details of updated data tools, key national data and digital developments, new projects, and upcoming D2I 