hey felt stressed by their work, 56% of them identified too much paperwork as being one of the issues contributing to their stress [4]. On average, workers reported spending 24 hours per week completing case-related paperwork. Therefore, the administrative aspects of children’s social work appear to play a key role in the retention and wellbeing of staff. Interestingly, when asked what factors would influence social workers to remain or return to local authority social work, 36% identified a more manageable admin and paperwork workload as a factor and 22% identified a better working environment/technology [4]. This therefore suggests that improvements to both admin and technology may lead to higher staff retention. 1.2 Case Management Systems within Children’s Social Care There are several Case Management Systems on the market; however, a freedom of information request sent to local authorities by Community Care in 2019 revealed that across the 124 councils that responded, 44% use LiquidLogic (now called System C) as their Case Management System in Children’s Services, followed by Mosaic at 24% [5]. North Yorkshire Council also use LiquidLogic as their Case Management System (CMS) within their Children’s Social Care (CSC) Service and will hereafter be referred to as LiquidLogic. 0 5 10 15 20 25 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Percentage Turnover (%) Year Percentage Rate of Social Worker Turnover North Yorkshire Yorkshire and The Humber Statistical Neighbours England Source: Local Authority Interactive Tool (gov.uk) 44% 24% 8% 6% 3% 3% 12% Case Management Systems Used in Children's Services across 124 Local Authorities LiquidLogic Mosaic (Servelec) CareFirst (OLM) Frameworki (Servelec) CareDirector Swift (OLM) Other Source: Community Care Survey 2019 [4] Fig