tems and forms to collate information from several platforms (such as health, education, police) to retrieve data and then check if it is up to date. “I think that life plans should be condensed and, yeah, really focus on what’s important for that young person or child at that moment. Where we’re in care proceedings for a child that’s basically what’s most important really because it’s decisions on their life. I get that we have to comment on health and things like that if it’s relevant but, you know.” (Practitioner) Missing episodes A missing episode - when a looked-after child who is not at their placement or the place they are expected to be and their whereabouts is not known for a specific length of time - was identified as specific information which IROs need but is not necessarily routinely given to them. They need to know about missing episodes to assess if the care plan needs to be reviewed and changed to fit the needs of the child or the young person more accurately. Interviews found that IROs would know about missing episodes either by talking to the social worker directly or if the social worker has mentioned them in their forms. They are not pulled through by the system to any of the forms used by IROs: “It might be nice to have missing episodes… because what you don't want to do, in a busy social worker's life, is to give him/her yet another form in repeating the same thing. So maybe missing 48 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS episodes could be pulled through by the system so people don't have to fill that all out. It can pull through from all the other forms on the system.” (Practitioner) The underlying issue is that the tools and/or software available to practitioners to record information and data items is not user ce