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This blog by the Data First team at the Ministry of Justice explores new analysis on the education and social care backgrounds of children and young people cautioned or sentenced for knife offences, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and acquisitive offences, and violence against women and girls (VAWG) offences. It highlights how linked administrative data can strengthen the evidence base for early intervention and prevention in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission.
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This blog by Professor Claire Crawford outlines recent updates to the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset, including the introduction of new derived variables designed to make the data easier to use while reducing the need to access more detailed personal data. Claire leads an ADR England-funded project, working in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), to support the development of LEO.
A suite of new reports by the Ministry of Justice Data First team links education, social care and justice data to provide new insights into patterns of youth offending and the backgrounds of children and young people who offend.
ADR UK Research Fellow Hanna Creese has been using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset to explore how health and socioeconomic factors relate to school attendance. But data alone rarely tells the whole story. So Hanna turned to the experts themselves: young people with lived experience of struggling to attend school.
New analysis using linked administrative data suggests that holding multiple jobs in Britain is far more common than official statistics indicate—particularly among young women.
