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On 3 March 2026, ADR Northern Ireland hosted an event at Parliament Buildings, Stormont - Children’s Social Care and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Connecting Data, Changing Futures. The event brought together experts by experience, policymakers, data owners, service providers and researchers to explore how using linked administrative data and lived experience can better inform policy and practice to prevent homelessness among social care experienced young people.
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ADR UK is delighted to announce the next phase of investment across our national partnerships. Following our successful reinvestment in 2025, we have now awarded funding to each UK nation: ADR England, ADR NI, ADR Scotland and ADR Wales.
Nearly half of Northern Ireland’s population experienced a change in their level of deprivation between 2010 and 2016, according to new ADR Northern Ireland research using linked administrative data. The Data Insight finds that while upward mobility is generally associated with better health outcomes, improvements in deprivation do not automatically translate into better health.
New research by ADR Northern Ireland (ADR NI) has played a central role in informing the Northern Ireland Executive’s recently launched New Foundations Programme, a major cross-departmental initiative to support young people leaving care.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), as part of ADR Northern Ireland, is now receiving applications from accredited researchers to use the Business Data for Research (BDR) 2022 dataset for research in the public interest.
