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This strategy sets out ADR UK’s vision and approach for Training and Capacity Building (TCB) during the 2026-2031 investment phase. It aims to support ADR UK’s overall mission to improve access to and use of secure forms of administrative data for research that informs better policy and outcomes.
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Homelessness among young people is often treated as a sudden crisis or an individual failure. The results presented in this ADR NI report show that, for many, it is neither. Drawing on linked administrative data and lived experience expertise, it demonstrates that homelessness risk is patterned, predictable and visible within public systems - often years before homelessness occurs.
This report summarises some key insights on children’s experiences with social care, which have been generated through research using administrative data. It serves as a source of evidence for policymakers and practitioners working to support children. It also provides a rich example of the power of administrative data to enable critical research evidence that can improve lives.
This comprehensive scoping review has been produced to inform and encourage greater use of administrative data for children’s social care research. It aims to identify strengths and gaps in the published literature to provide the research community with a clearer understanding of research priorities.
This report summarises findings from an analysis examining the extent to which the Pupil Matching Reference numbers (PMRs) within the National Pupil Database (NPD) change over time. The project also investigated which demographic groups of individuals were more or less likely to be affected by these changes. This work was carried out as part of the ECHILD (Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data) project.
This research report provides an overview of this community catalyst’s aims and summarises the research approach used to address these objectives.
This summary report presents an overview of the results of the midterm evaluation of ADR UK, conducted by Oxford Insights and Lateral Economics with support from the Open Data Institute. It provides an assessment of ADR UK’s progress to date, as well as recommendations for getting further value out of the remainder of this investment period and tracking future progress.
This report from Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research and the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection explores the characteristics, experiences, and outcomes of ‘looked after’ children living in kinship care in Scotland. It provides insight into the requirements that welfare, universal, and targeted services should meet to ensure the safety, health, education and wellbeing of all children.
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.
This report, produced by ADR Wales in partnership with the Welsh Government, explores the feasibility of providing an estimate of children potentially missing from education using linked administrative data in the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank.
