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It was set up in 2015 in response to the national Troubled Families Programme.' Liberty Investigates describes Insight Bristol as a joint team of data scientists originally formed by Bristol City Council and Avon and Somerset Police, and the council privacy notice names Avon and Somerset Police as a supplier of data.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-a9864c655d6ace23", "field": "snippet", "text": "From 2016 it ran the Think Family Database", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-0ea2b67e6e8c6784", "src-1e8b7205f4563aff" ], "supportNote": "The Bristol Cable states the database 'launched in 2016 and is still in operation today'; Liberty Investigates writes that it was 'Launched in 2016 by the Bristol City Council and Avon and Somerset Police'.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-0378ad87af736d60", "field": "snippet", "text": "a single view of a family drawn from around 35 council, police, health, benefits and school datasets", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-34debd022745f267", "src-9d5c846edd944188", "src-da72b54af61289ad" ], "supportNote": "The IICSA inquiry section describes the Think Family Database bringing together 35 different datasets about children from education, housing services, the police, welfare systems and mental health; the Bristol Cable independently gives approximately 35 datasets from council, police and other agencies; the council privacy notice states the purpose is to 'produce a single view of a person for safeguarding professionals to access' and names the Department for Work and Pensions, NHS bodies, educational settings and Avon and Somerset Police among the sources.", "caveat": "The count of 35 comes from the IICSA inquiry (2022) and the Bristol Cable (2026); the council's own page lists the contributing bodies but does not publish a dataset count. 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The Bristol Cable reports the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation criticising in 2021 the use of 'legal gateways' to collect large amounts of sensitive data instead of building trust, noting 'Legality is not the same as legitimacy'.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-cab712a9538665c4", "field": "snippet", "text": "Machine-learning models scored children for risk of sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, and being out of education, employment or training", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-dc8840e820011cae", "src-0ea2b67e6e8c6784" ], "supportNote": "The Bristol Cable in 2021: 'There are three main models used by the Think Family program, that look at the risk of children suffering sexual abuse, criminality or being out of work, education and training (NEET).' The 2026 reporting names the two withdrawn models as the Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) models and describes them generating risk scores for individual children.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-842f8383e37405ad", "field": "snippet", "text": "Two of the three were switched off in 2023", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-0ea2b67e6e8c6784", "src-1e8b7205f4563aff", "src-9d5c846edd944188" ], "supportNote": "The Bristol Cable: 'The council decided the models were not fit for operational use and shut them down in 2023.' Liberty Investigates dates the decision to stop the CSE and CCE models to by June 2023; the Cable's January 2026 piece gives May 2023.", "caveat": "Sources give May 2023 and 'by June 2023'; the entry says only 2023.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-fd234828bef30c4e", "field": "snippet", "text": "The database itself is still running", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-0ea2b67e6e8c6784", "src-21cc8ef43151fb5c", "src-561498af9ff7b169" ], "supportNote": "The Bristol Cable, June 2026: the database 'is still in operation today'. The council's service page describes the Think Family Database in the present tense, and the government's algorithm register entry for the NEET model hosted on it was published in January 2025.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-18dd42cd3a286566", "field": "impact", "text": "The council's own page puts the database at around 55,000 families", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-21cc8ef43151fb5c", "src-9d5c846edd944188" ], "supportNote": "The council page states the database holds information from approximately 55,000 families; the Bristol Cable independently reports the database monitoring 55,000 families in Bristol.", "caveat": "Other counts measure different things: the Bristol Cable reports it 'understands' the database holds records relating to around 475,000 current and former residents. That figure is hedged in the source and is not used here.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-00efab65aff2af6e", "field": "impact", "text": "In 2021 it answered a freedom-of-information request saying around 450 children were flagged as at risk of sexual exploitation by the model", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-dc8840e820011cae" ], "supportNote": "The Bristol Cable, July 2021: 'Around 450 children were flagged as being at risk of sexual exploitation by the model as of June, according to Bristol City Council.' 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No recall figure was ever published, which is what the later evaluation faulted.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-2243dda409a448d3", "field": "impact", "text": "the campaign group Big Brother Watch said about 90 of them may have been wrongly flagged", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-dc8840e820011cae" ], "supportNote": "Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch, is quoted in the Bristol Cable putting roughly 90 of the 450 flagged children in the category that 'may have been wrongly flagged', derived from the council's own 80 per cent precision figure.", "caveat": "This is Big Brother Watch's arithmetic on the council's precision figure, not a separately measured count, and the entry attributes it as such.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-fcbcd26e90c67335", "field": "impact", "text": "The one surviving model, for risk of not being in education, employment or training, is entered on the UK government's Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-561498af9ff7b169", "src-21cc8ef43151fb5c", "src-9d5c846edd944188" ], "supportNote": "The record is titled 'NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) Model Hosted on the Think Family Database (TFD)' and was published on GOV.UK on 28 January 2025. The council's own page describes a surviving 'Risk of NEET data model', and Cllr Christine Townsend told the Bristol Cable the authority uses no predictive analytics other than to identify children at risk of becoming NEET.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-23e19ee2c7700e19", "field": "impact", "text": "around 150 safeguarding professionals use the front-end report each month", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-561498af9ff7b169" ], "supportNote": "The transparency record states: 'Overall, there are around 150 safeguarding professionals from Bristol City Council using the front-end report for the TFD (known as the Children & Families View) each month.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-d01dac650bf8496d", "field": "impact", "text": "the score sits among more than 70 other indicators of vulnerability", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-561498af9ff7b169" ], "supportNote": "The transparency record states: 'The model is then used as an indicator of vulnerability - there are over 70 other indicators of vulnerabilities for safeguarding leads to fully understand what action /decision is required.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-59f111a7a18c6bc3", "field": "impact", "text": "the record states there is no automated decision making based on it", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-561498af9ff7b169" ], "supportNote": "Verbatim from the transparency record: 'There is no automated decision making based on the NEET model.'", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-aceb4a17173e29ed", "field": "lesson", "text": "Council staff judged the two exploitation models not fit for operational use and stopped them in 2023", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-0ea2b67e6e8c6784", "src-1e8b7205f4563aff", "src-9d5c846edd944188" ], "supportNote": "The phrase 'not fit for operational use' is the council's own, quoted by the Bristol Cable and by Liberty Investigates as the staff assessment behind the shutdown, which both date to 2023.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6fa8c0f9893000d5", "field": "lesson", "text": "An independent evaluation by the non-profit Social Finance, commissioned by Somerset Council in partnership with Bristol and published in June 2025", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-617fc9f5322b5974", "src-1e8b7205f4563aff" ], "supportNote": "The Data to Insight publication page states: 'Somerset Council, in partnership with Bristol Council, commissioned Social Finance to deliver an independent evaluation of the implementation and impact of single view products being used in Bristol', first published 23 June 2025. 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States Insight Bristol is a Bristol City Council data team set up in 2015 in response to the national Troubled Families Programme; that the Think Family Database holds information from approximately 55,000 families; lists the contributing bodies (Bristol City Council, Avon and Somerset Police, Department for Education, Department for Work and Pensions, SCWCSU, Barnardo's, NHS); and describes a surviving 'Risk of NEET data model'.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-da72b54af61289ad", "title": "Bristol City Council — Insight Bristol privacy notice (operator, PDF)", "url": "https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/5977-insight-bristol-privacy-notice/file", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "bristol.gov.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-0378ad87af736d60", "clm-7bc8a0b6af2ae7f6", "clm-54b025581a43c408", "clm-c6346e995f7d555e" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Statutory privacy notice for the Insight Bristol products. Lists the data categories held, including personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin and data relating to criminal offences and incidents; names the legal bases as legal obligation, official authority, social protection and substantial public interest, and enumerates the 'legal gateways' relied on; describes the Think Family Database, Children and Families View, Think Family Education app and the NEET modelling; and records the onward sharing to Avon and Somerset Police's Lighthouse safeguarding unit. 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Carries the ~150 safeguarding professionals a month figure, the 'over 70 other indicators of vulnerabilities' framing, the statement that there is no automated decision making based on the model, the precision-and-recall review commitment, and a Data Protection Impact Assessment created 01/11/2018 and last updated July 2024.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-34debd022745f267", "title": "IICSA, Child sexual exploitation by organised networks, H.7 Predictive analytics (statutory inquiry)", "url": "https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/cs-organised-networks/part-h-profiling/h7-predictive-analytics.html", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "iicsa.org.uk", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-0378ad87af736d60" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": null, "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-25", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-25", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "record-date-only" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Statutory public inquiry. 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