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Using linked data to evaluate special educational needs provision and offending risk

20 January 2023

Dr Alice Wickersham is an ADR UK Research Fellow exploring associations between school performance trajectories and offending behaviour. In this blog, she shares some opportunities and challenges around the potential for target trial emulation in this area of research. This involves applying design principles from randomised controlled trials to the analysis of observational datasets.  

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Splink: Free software for probabilistic record linkage at scale

24 August 2022

In this blog, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data scientist Robin Linacre introduces Splink, a free and open source software library for record linkage at scale that has now been downloaded over three million times. This software implements a best-practice approach, and has been developed as part of the Data First programme, ADR UK’s collaboration with MoJ.

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Feasibility of using linked dataset to evaluate early interventions to prevent violent crime

25 July 2022

In this blog, Dr Rosie Cornish of the University of Bristol describes the findings of her research. Her project team has been examining the feasibility of using the de-identified Ministry of Justice (MoJ)-Department for Education...

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How do different types of social care involvement affect children’s education and offending outcomes?

24 March 2022

In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Anna Leyland explains how her research will explore the impact of different experiences of formal child social care involvement.

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Exploring the impact of education and social care on offending patterns

16 March 2022

In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Hannah Dickson explains how her research will support more effective interventions to prevent prolific offending by identifying the early drivers of this behaviour.

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