Why is it important to collect data on the welfare of children and young people?
While it would be possible to create a checklist of the key data about children, their families and service engagement over time, the welfare process is about human development and journeys. It requires key skills in learning about people, generating insight, observation and information management. This involves both qualitative and quantitative data and crucially professional reflection to make sense of a human situation and respond appropriately. This may be best achieved in a shared recording system, by rich categorization and the capacity to aggregate case data, which can be communicated and shared.
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