h outputs. • identify where data items in the proposed data set are already included in the CIN Census and SSDS903, Ofsted Annex A and the Regional Improvement and Innovation Alliance quarterly data return. Stage 2 • a suite of standard easily adoptable methods for regularly producing the standard CSC dataset from each of the case management systems currently used by safeguarding authorities, either as independently developed, free, open-source products, or as integrated components of those case management systems at no future cost to customers. 7 • a framework for maintaining and developing the standard CSC dataset into the future so it will be accepted by as many LAs as possible, and include changes made as a result of the care review and social work practice, keeping the interests of vulnerable children at the heart of all design decisions. We wholeheartedly endorsed the DfE’s vision for this project, and adopted the brief’s separation of two stages, resulting in two key project delivery strands which are nevertheless closely related. 5. The project year as it happened Our project commenced with a successful bid to DfE’s Data and Digital Solutions Fund, sponsored by a partnership of LAs comprising: • Hertfordshire County Council • Essex County Council • Knowsley Council • North West ADCS • East Sussex County Council (host LA for Data to Insight) We also established a wider circle of contributing partners including Manchester City Council, Trafford Council, Sutton Council, Newham Council, and the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance. 5.1. Initiation We developed a high-level plan for the year based on our successful bid, to which we fitted our detail work. The original high-level plan changed very little after the project started; with minor exceptions to be dis