with young people in care (Yang and Dibb,2020) which focused on their knowledge and understanding of the information collected and recorded about them and their experiences and views of record keeping. The interviews took place during the ‘Its My Life’ festival which has been running for 25 years. The festival, which is open to children and young people in care in the lead LA, runs across five days in the school summer holidays and provides opportunities to come together with other 24 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS children and young people from similar backgrounds, take part in activities and group discussions to have their say on issues regarding being in care. Eighty-three children and young people took part in interview discussions across the five days, comprising:  Care leavers: 18  CLA aged 8 to 12 years: 12  CLA aged 13 to 17 years: 32  Children in Need/Child protection: 21 Over 100 children and young people took part in a voting exercise and spoke to team members informally. Data was recorded using handwritten notes and analysed using thematic analysis. Following ‘It’s My Life’, additional discussions were facilitated with care leavers via Zoom, and a question- and-answer session took place with managers and CSC staff. Approximately 20 to 25 CSC staff took part in the Missing Chapters data collection process. One project worker worked alongside members of the Involvement team, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the user research team to thematically analyse the responses and create a report detailing the findings. The full Missing Chapters report can be found in appendix three. Key insights from this work have been woven throughout the findings section of this report. Ethical approval Ethical approval was sou