r MACPTs. • Timescales need to be realistic; the Family Hubs programme was far too ambitious and unrealistic. Challenges on Supplier Timescales • We feel the pain for suppliers if they only have the detail LAs currently do. • How will the DfE ensure suppliers are able to deliver the requirements to an agreed quality and timescale? • Suppliers have not committed to anything concrete yet as they are not clear either which makes it difficult for the LAs to plan what to do in the interim. • Changes that require supplier development can take time e.g. 18 months to 2 years depending on the timing on their development roadmap and what else is committed to already. Challenges on Supplier Design • Systems should be led by and compliment practice, concern they won’t deliver that. • We want to work with suppliers, but please engage us early and communicate your plans clearly to the wider user base. • Some of the supplier systems will need more radical redesign than others, for example where Early Help and Social Care have been on separate modules. • Lack of confidence in supplier’s ability and capacity to get this right. • Some suppliers have their statutory reports hard coded into the product; they will need the future reporting requirements to build something that will be future compliant. • We need national guidance that we (LAs and Suppliers) can use that sets out the changes needed, kinds of statutory forms and workflows that will need to be embedded and what will be configurable by customers. • How to enable multi agency child protection teams where access is possible without having to use Council issued laptops. This is not possible in all LAs/in all CMS systems. • Concerned about complex profile permissions for multi-agency working / access to CMS/ data breaches. • There i