he impact which improved data practice might have had on any individual LA’s safeguarding performance. As such, we would recommend taking the above as indications of what we would like to understand, rather than a framework for devising specific performance metrics. We believe there is much future work to do in support of this project’s outputs, to ensure that our work can best benefit the sector. We detail this in the separate “Future Support Plan” report. 9. Learning from the project Through our work we gained valuable insights into data practice across the sector, which warrant the separate detailed research reports we made and discussed in sections 5, 6.4, and 6.5 above. 21 Here, we offer our reflections on the project as it ran, and the learning we would want to capture and share for the benefit of other similar projects and initiatives. 9.1. Stakeholder engagement We believe in partnership working, and in open working, as effective tools for delivery in this sector. We actively sought input from all potential stakeholders, and directly engaged with a broad spectrum of roles. The willingness of those within the sector to engage with, and contribute experience to, the project has been critical to refining the project’s core goals and validating our approach. The cross-sector vantage point of D2I particularly helped us to gather and understand high quality sector knowledge and experience contributions from a broad cross-sector community. 9.2. Shared and remote testing As the project moved through development, testing and pilot deployment, we encountered familiar bottlenecks resulting from justifiable restrictions in LAs’ data infrastructure and systems access practices. These required us to develop in distinct workstreams and to create products which operated solely 