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Data First – the Ministry of Justice’s ambitious data linking and research programme – recently received funding from UK Research and Innovation to undertake new work in support of the UK Government’s Safer Streets Mission. In this blog, the Data First team tell us more about this and highlight the opportunity for researchers to use Data First data to explore important research themes for the Mission.
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ADR UK Research Fellow, Hope Kent, shares her personal reflections on her attendance at the Council of Europe Conference for Directors of Prison and Probation 2025.
This blog is by Nisha da Silva, keynote speaker at the ADR UK Conference 2025 and contributor to the Ministry of Justice’s Data First programme. She explores how linked data reveals key insights into justice system journeys and how these findings are shaping policy, research, and technology.
This blog by ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Hannah Dickson explores the challenges of violent reoffending in England and Wales, and how a risk assessment tool developed in Sweden – OxRec - might help improve decision making in the criminal justice system. The blog outlines why better risk assessment matters, how current tools could be improved, and what her study hopes to uncover.
This blog by Dr Liliana Belkin, an ADR UK fellow working with the Ministry of Justice-Department for Education (MoJ-DfE) linked dataset, explores the potential links between alternative provision and youth offending, and reflects on how better data can inform fairer and more inclusive education systems.
