uable to their practice of record keeping: “The good thing about this form is that you can select the sections you want to fill in and a lot of youngsters actually choose not to have that section in there.” (Practitioner) Specific elements/tools Participants spoke about specific elements and tools which they find to be helpful and work well in helping practitioners to get a holistic view of the child or young person. Chronologies, for example, provide a timeline of significant events, key decisions made, and actions taken. They provide a ‘road map’ to help in identifying emerging patterns. “Chronologies definitely work well when it comes to prepare court cases and you need to know what the child's history is, and you need to go through it with a parent if a particular incident has taken place and you're trying to figure it out.” (Practitioner) 37 DfE Project 2A: User research into social worker inputted data to CMS Journey through care There was a consensus between all participants, regardless of role or responsibility, that the forms support their ability to understand a child/young person’s journey through care and the relationships they have both with those involved in the CSC system and beyond: “We have to know and understand the child's journey end to end. We have a helicopter view [because] seeing the bigger picture matters.” (Data Consumer) The data items together make up a child/young person’s record and can be used to piece together history to understand an individual’s past and current context: “When you're working with a child, something kind of clicks, and it's much easier if you can go back and look up the history of it. So, for example, I tend to look into a lot of the previous social workers notes. A lot of their statements I tend to use a lot because I'm