hat the data had most value in the hands of practitioners across children’s services. It was felt that it had the potential to offer several benefits, particularly around enabling communication between different council stakeholders, thereby enabling multi-agency work. 2.2 Rationale for the creation of the TFD The TFD was originally designed for use in conjunction with the Supporting Families programme (formerly Troubled Families), with the goal of supporting practitioners to embed a ‘whole family approach’, rather than responding to individual events. The TFD was set up to support targeted early intervention and prevention, and in turn to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and families. The decision was taken to allocate some of the grant received through the Supporting Families programme to set up a partnership data analytics team, named Insight Bristol, including staff from Bristol City Council and Avon and Somerset Police. The vision was to add to, and better utilise, the data gathered through the first phase of the Supporting Families programme, giving a view of this to frontline practitioners. In doing so, identifying the families most at risk meant that targeting interventions could be done more effectively. Specifically, it was felt this would be achieved by:  Showing a more ‘complete’ picture of the issues and risks facing a family, by displaying data to practitioners that they previously couldn’t access,  Saving practitioners time and effort in accessing a range of disparate systems to find the information they need to know about children and families,  Linking practitioners with others who are currently working or have previously worked with a family to improve the coordination between practitioners. Social Finance Limited +44 (0) 20 7770 6836 87 Vau