Page 1 of 2 To join NVEST or access our website please visit NVEST | Data to Insight NEWSLETTER June 2025 Local Authority concerns about system readiness for Families First At the May NVEST meeting, 212 members attended representing 89 Local Authorities. The theme was Families First and Tom Griffiths attended on behalf of the DfE. Discussions which took place evidenced that there is significant concern about the programme being rolled out ahead of the case management systems being adapted to support it and NVEST have now written to the DfE asking for a response to the concerns that have been raised. To read the full briefing, visit here: Adapting Case Management Systems for Families First (NVEST Briefing May 2025) Invitation to participate in Data Standards development In our last newsletter we told you about a DfE project introducing new standards and that some workshops would be taking place to identify the right use cases that would most helpfully be solved through developing standards. 14 local authorities that are part of the NVEST community contributed to the first round of workshops and provided invaluable feedback on what was most important for children and families. Following those workshops, the DfE have now agreed the first set of standards. These are 1) A standard data set about a child which will form the basis of multi-agency information sharing 2) Data standards to support multi agency information sharing, in particular the ability to look up key information that another agency holds about a child social care are involved with. 3) A standard data set about children and placements which will form the basis of starting to develop local and national intelligence to Local Authorities about placement sufficiency, costs and associated trends. Social Finance who