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New R code for is available for cleaning the children’s social care (CSC) datasets included in the National Pupil Database. This code was developed by the ECHILD (Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data) team. It is freely available to access via GitHub.
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The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) is providing a placement opportunity to improve the way OSR regulates official statistics across the UK statistical system, by creating greater accountability for government departments to comply with the intelligent transparency principles. The project seeks to develop a monitoring and reporting approach for intelligent transparency, which will be summarised in a report. Applications for the opportunity will close on 31 October.
Data Analytics and Research Environments UK (DARE UK) has launched a funding opportunity aimed at supporting the management and development of both new and existing community interest groups and working groups.
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.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Carly Lightowlers discusses the findings of her research which explored how alcohol-related treatment or monitoring requirements are being used and whether they are reducing reoffending.
