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ADR UK is providing in-kind support to Cancer Research UK's Cancer Data Driven Detection initiative, by funding a project using linked administrative and health data to understand the incidence of breast and bowel cancer in Wales.
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The ADR Wales Social Care programme is led by Social Care Wales, a Welsh Government-sponsored body which registers and sets standards for social workers and social care workers in Wales. This programme will promote the benefits of linked data research and demonstrate its potential for understanding social care in Wales and beyond.
This ADR Wales research agenda will cover inequalities in health outcomes, treatment, accessibility to services, opportunities, and education for the population of Wales. It will utilise linked anonymised, individual-level, population-scale data that is routinely collected. This includes demographic, health, environmental, administrative and social data.
The ADR Wales Mental Health research programme will focus on the matters of anxiety, depression and suicide and self-harm prevention. This is in line with the Welsh Government’s commitment to invest in mental health by redesigning services to “improve prevention, tackle stigma and promote a no-wrong door approach to mental health support”.
This innovative programme will continue to work with education partners in Wales to better understand the barriers individuals face in finding meaningful work and accessing the skills and training needed to compete. The programme will address questions of low skills levels in Wales, and the progression from education and training to meaningful jobs against a backdrop of Brexit and the pandemic.
The ADR Wales Health and Wellbeing programme brings together health and well-being administrative data with novel geospatial data to provide insights into health and wellbeing in Wales.
To address currently identified and new emerging priority areas for government, ADR Wales has created a Major Societal Challenges work stream. This will monitor, evaluate and research the impacts of major societal challenges over time and across generations for the whole population.
How do we make a Wales where homelessness is rare, brief and unrepeated? This important question drives ADR Wales research under this thematic area. It will explore opportunities for more timely interventions, and produce an evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness, for whom, and in what context.
The ADR Wales Education research programme has been developed in line with the Welsh Government’s ambition to deliver a long-term programme of education reform and ensure educational inequalities narrow and standards rise. This is furthered by the commitment that no pupil is ‘left behind’ after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Combining expertise from backgrounds in early years, child health, mental health and education to name just a few, the ADR Wales Early Years research team brings together this knowledge to deliver well-rounded policy-informing research. This is needed to help all children - particularly those from deprived backgrounds.
