he police was appointed as Supporting Families coordinator in 2012 and acted as initial ‘sponsor’ of the team in 2015, allocating the budget, holding risks and defining the strategic ambitions of the team. This individual has held the strategic management of the team to this day.  Data governance expert: An expert in information governance and data protection was commissioned from the NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit, to design the information governance approach of the team.  LA Data expert: An analyst from the Bristol City Council business intelligence team, who had a deep understanding of the LA data architecture, was seconded full time onto the team to support with the initial build of the database. Social Finance Limited +44 (0) 20 7770 6836 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ socialfinance.org.uk 82  Police data scientist: A data scientist from the police was recruited to support in the extraction, transfer and load process of police data. Additionally, a freelance SQL developer was recruited full time to support with the building of the initial database. As the database became more established, a team emerged consisting of a strategic manager, LA data expert, and a police data scientist, along with an additional three roles:  Analyst/Developer: To support with the weekly loads of data and the Supporting Families payment by results process.  Risk model developer: To develop the targeted risk models.  Business relationship manager: To act as a liaison between frontline practitioners and the data team, understanding requirements, and translating these into specifications for the data team to develop the front end of the database and additional tools. Naturally, over the years the composition of the team has flexed and shifted due to departur