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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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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.
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow, Xiaowei Xu, shares her reflections on her project on youth migration using Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data.
This blog, written by the ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes team, outlines key insights from recent research into how administrative data can be better used to support children’s social care (CSC). Drawing on three new reports launched in January, the authors highlight current evidence gaps, emerging priorities, and opportunities to strengthen the research infrastructure that informs policy and practice for children and families.
This blog by Evie Parmenter, Senior Research Portfolio Manager at the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the powerful connection between our environment and our health. Drawing on insights from research funded by ADR UK, it highlights how factors like pollution, green space access, and housing conditions shape wellbeing, and how linked administrative data can help drive better decisions and healthier outcomes.