d that needs a social worker is £14,000 per year [17]. As of March 2020 there were 389,260 children who needed a social worker with 80,080 Children Looked After. Nationally Local Authorities spent £5.3bn looking after children and £2.7bn safeguarding children. This does not include the £1.2bn legal costs relating to care proceedings [13]. Breaking those costs down further, residential care in the independent sector costs an average of £3,830 per week, foster care in the independent sector costs £820 per week [13]. Nothing mentioned here can account for the emotional costs associate with care proceedings for those involved. This tool, whilst technical in nature, has the potential to impact practice and the decisions made about children. Traditionally there are small numbers of people listed as relationships for the children who services are provided to. The tool identifies significantly more people who make up a child’s “network” with very minimal input required from the user. The hypothesis is that the more people you can identify and involve in a child’s safety plan, the less likely they are to progress through the system. Similarly, with more people or a wider variety of people identified in a child’s network, if the child cannot continue to live where they are, it becomes the more likely that there will be people in their existing network who are willing and able to care for them. This is rather than them living with foster carers who are unknown to them. This in turn would positively impact the national shortage of foster carers. 4.4.4 Existing Case Management System (LiquidLogic) Performance and incident data In the year 2023 the Council received 2,266 IT requests relating to LCS issues. Of these, only 75 were identified to be related to the user needing more train