voted clearly to understand the narrative of why they came into care and the reasons for social care involvement within their records. This was also validated in discussions with care leavers; the need to find out ‘the truth’ and ‘their journey’. Therefore, ensuring that this is clearly communicated in their record using plain and jargon free language is of importance and echoes the viewpoints of the professionals in this research. Data captured without context Much of the information collected about a child or young person is collected through a series of closed questions, drop-down lists and scoring questions. Many participants stated that it is not always possible to capture the context of a meeting with a child or young person in this way: “The most important information that we're getting is from the children directly, and that's very difficult to quantify.” (Practitioner) Some practitioners suggested that a conversation to support this quantitative data collection can be useful to help contextualise what the child or young person is reporting or telling practitioners: "I sometimes just think some things need to be off of a form that everybody’s going to get and it’s like an open discussion. Then you can manage it a little bit better." (Practitioner) Indeed, some managers reported that the forms do not always enable staff to collect the correct and necessary data and often data and/or events need to be followed up in conversation to gain context that the forms do not allow: “It’s a tick box exercise and it’s also I think because maybe senior managers don’t trust managers to have oversight of things like self-harm. I would expect my managers to be discussing that in another 42 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS section which is abo