In Ontario, Canada, and England, in the United Kingdom, child protection services encounter problems related to data quality and usefulness, underlying infrastructure deficits, and incongruities between objectives and measures. Solutions related to data governance, digital and organizational infrastructure, and the range of objectives and outcome measures can help to overcome some of these problems. Insights from these specific child protection cases are beneficial to other public sector service areas and jurisdictions seeking to govern data for analytics that serve everyone.
