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13 February 2025
A new report by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), produced in collaboration with ADR UK, explores the experiences of children and young people in social care across the four UK nations.
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15 January 2025
The ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes project has today published four new reports aimed at transforming children's social care research. These analyse existing research in the field and compile stakeholder views, revealing gaps in evidence and setting an agenda for future research.
14 November 2024
An independent, economic evaluation of the ADR UK programme conservatively estimates that ADR UK is returning a benefit-cost ratio of 5.05. This means that for every pound spent, there are just over £5 of benefits.
8 October 2024
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.
18 September 2024
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.
