The People in My Life project was an interdisciplinary innovation project inspired by the vision to unlock the potential of ‘felt closeness’ (i.e., sub jective perceptions of closeness to family and community members) for social work practice with children and young people. The central idea of the project was to develop a technologybased means (i.e. a tablet app) to assess and use this construct in social work practice. This is the report from the project