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If our initial pilot over the summer is successful, then, at this stage, we anticipate being able to begin giving children’s social care teams within local authorities access to NHS numbers during 2026 while, in parallel, we test its ability to be used within wider areas such as local authority data feeds. The point here is that we will not need to wait for a big bang to introduce it. Assuming that this is the appropriate way to proceed, we will be able to do it on an incremental basis as quickly as possible in different areas and with different agencies.