miliarity of using them and the depth of information held within them compared to the TFD. The TFD helps some practitioners to plan and monitor their work. Some team managers and supervisors in Early Intervention described how the TFD could be a useful source of information for workers to develop action plans for the cases they hold, and for continuously monitoring progress on these plans. An Early Intervention manager told us that people in their team “would use the TFD to get background information to start developing their action plan. They’d go on the TFD, examine indicators, define an action plan, and then look at the TFD on an ongoing basis to update the outcome status”. 5.2.2 Time-saving The TFD helps some practitioners save time by bringing information about children and families together into one place Initially, responses to our survey indicated a mixed picture in terms of whether or not the TFD saves users’ time: 38% indicated that it helped them to save time. Within this, 44% of Triage practitioners noted it saved them time spent on tasks. However, we found that those who use it more often are more likely to report benefits in relation to efficiency, with 50% of all regular users (at least once a week) saying that the TFD saves them time. There are various different reasons why the remaining 50% of these practitioners don’t use the TFD as often, as well as other reasons why usage doesn’t translate into certain benefits such as time saving. These are explored in the ‘Limiting Factors’ section (Section 5.2.5). Across different job roles, time savings are realised in various ways. Triage practitioners are the highest users of the TFD. These teams receive and process a large volume of referrals and make triaging decisions, some of which may be based on limited i