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The Youth Endowment Fund has launched its latest funding opportunity, calling for projects that use existing datasets to address key research questions for policy and practice in relation to children and young people’s involvement in crime and violence. The Youth Endowment Fund is part of the What Works Network.
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Rob French, lead of the ADR Wales Education research theme, highlights the opportunities and challenges of linking child health and education data for research – both on a national and international scale. These will be explored in a new special edition of the International Journal of Population Data Science.
A report from researchers at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) and the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) has provided new insights into the experiences of children growing up in kinship care in Scotland. The study, the first of its kind, linked multiple data sources – including the Looked After Children Longitudinal dataset, health visit data, and child protection records – to explore the lives of more than 19,000 children in kinship care from 2008 to 2019. SCADR is part of ADR Scotland.
ADR Wales has published a report examining how to estimate the number of children not enrolled in state schools across Wales. Using linked data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, the study supports potential regulations to create a database for tracking children missing from state education.
Researchers at ADR Scotland analysing temporary exclusions in Scottish secondary schools have uncovered significant variations across schools and council areas. These are influenced by demographic and socioeconomic factors.