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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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Ensuring data is used securely and ethically – and maintaining public trust – is at the heart of ADR UK’s work with administrative data. In this blog, ADR UK Director Emma Gordon explains how we do this, and why it’s so crucial.
This blog by Dr Bogusia Wojciechowska, Senior Research Manager for Training & Capacity Building at ADR UK, reflects on the growing role of communities of practice in administrative data research, and the impact they are having in building skills, confidence and collaboration across the researcher community.
Research using administrative data can offer unprecedented insights into youth experiences of the criminal justice system – but this comes with some challenges. In this blog, Professor Alex Sutherland explores some of the complexities around using this data. Alex is a co-Investigator on the ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Youth Transitions project.
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.
