Context: During 2008 -2009 Faith in Families investigated the possibility of introducing a concurrent planning scheme with 6 local authorities in the East Midlands. Planning for this became quite advanced, and a member of staff was appointed by Faith in Families to carry forward the project. Nottingham Trent University was asked to evaluate the implementation, and funding was secured through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership grant. Following the demise of the Goodman project in Manchester (see below), and internal changes at Faith in Families, the implementation was put on hold and the university was asked to undertake a scoping exercise. This report relates to that exercise