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Dataset-specific publications, such as Data Explained documents and user guides, can be found on the ADR UK Data Catalogue or on Flagship datasets.

3 April 2025

Data Insight: Disengagement from school among pupils experiencing homelessness in Wales

This Data Insight explores the association between disengagement from school and youth homelessness. The team analysed data from a screening tool forming part of a youth homelessness prevention scheme in Wales, known as Upstream Cymru. Three forms of school disengagement were measured: exclusions/suspension, truancy, and misbehavior.

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28 March 2025

Data Insight: Investigating the relationship between higher education participation, personal characteristics and area of residence among school or college leavers

This Data Insight investigates the extent to which the personal characteristics and area of residence of school or college leavers in England have a bearing on the likelihood of participation in higher education.

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21 March 2025

Data Insight: Understanding the impact of time in care on educational attainment in England

This Data Insight by Xiaohui Zhang examines the impact of time spent in care on educational attainment, measured by the number of GCSE and advanced level qualifications achieved by children aged 15 and 17 in England. The findings are based on analyses of the Growing Up in England (GUiE) dataset.

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21 February 2025

Data Insight: Childhood contact with social services, self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation in young adulthood

This Data Insight uses population-wide data in Northern Ireland (NI) to quantify the association between childhood contact with social services and presentation to an emergency department (ED) with self-harm or thoughts of suicide or self-harm in young adulthood.

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18 February 2025

Data Insight: Gender gaps in teacher grades for university admissions

This Data Insight discusses the differences between A-level teacher-predicted grades for university admissions, and exam results, by student gender.

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6 December 2024

Data Insight: Children involved with child welfare services and the likelihood of a custodial sentence

This Data Insight by Dr Anna Leyland summarises findings from working with the Ministry of Justice & Department for Education linked dataset - England. Using data from the National Pupil Database and the Police National Computer, the research analyses the likelihood of receiving a custodial sentence by 2020 for children who were referred to or received an intervention from child welfare services from ages 5-18.

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3 December 2024

Data Insight: What came first: Is there a causal role of child welfare service interventions on likelihood of having criminal cautions or convictions?

This Data Insight summarises findings from working with the Ministry of Justice & Department for Education linked dataset - England. Using de-identified data from the National Pupil Database and the Police National Computer, the research looks at the order in which children were in contact with the child welfare service and criminal justice system. This report then estimates the likelihood of having any criminal caution or conviction, including only those cases where children were involved with the child welfare service one year or more before they had any criminal caution or conviction and up until 2020.

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8 October 2024

Data Insight: Growing up in kinship care

This Data Insight by Dr Joanna Soraghan and Dr Robert Porter explores the experiences of children and young people in Scotland who have spent time living with a family member or family friend while in care – known as ‘kinship care’. The Growing Up in Kinship Care study makes use of the Scottish Government’s Longitudinal Looked After Children dataset.

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11 September 2024

Data Insight: BMI and immunisation uptake by different levels of engagement with Flying Start in Swansea

This Data Insight explores the body mass index (BMI) and immunisation uptake across different levels of engagement with the health visiting component of Flying Start programme, in the City and County of Swansea.

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16 August 2024

Data Insight: Childhood educational predictors of re-offending trajectories

This Data Insight examines the feasibility of using childhood educational information to develop predictive models of re-offending trajectories. A re-offending trajectory is the pattern by which a person commits crimes throughout their lifetime. This research aimed to explore whether we could use de-identified administrative educational and social care data to potentially identify the characteristics of individuals who may go on to become persistent offenders. The research used the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education linked dataset – England.

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