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- DATA INSIGHTS - Exploring illegal drug consignments in Scotland
- DATA INSIGHTS -Linking two administrative data sets about looked after children
- NEWS - ADR UK grants 20 PhD studentship opportunities focused on quantitative research using linked administrative data
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- The importance of administrative data
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- An Introduction to Data Science for Administrative Data Research course - March 2023
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- DATA INSIGHTS - Were people who died at home less likely to attend hospital at the end of life during the Covid pandemic?
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BLOG - Growing up in kinship care
Our blog highlights our upcoming work that will explore the needs, experiences and outcomes of formal kinship care.
Why are we doing this research?
Children and young people with care experience are among the most vulnerable in our society. There are a number of different living arrangements that children and young people who live away from their parents can experience, including the more commonly known foster care, adoptive care and residential care. However, there is an increasing trend, supported by government policy and guidance, towards children and young people who cannot live with their parents being supported by local authorities to live with extended family or close friends; formal kinship care.
In the year 2019-20, 31% of children who could not live with their parents were living in formal kinship care, up from just 20% in 2010. As the number of young people living in formal kinship care increases, it is important that we better understand their experiences. So, in 2020, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded this study through the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) to link administrative data from a range of sources to help us learn about the journeys, experiences and outcomes of children & young people in kinship care.
What we will do?
This project will link data from a wide range of sources, including datasets held by different government divisions, including health, education, child protection and looked after children, alongside data held by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) on the Children’s Hearings system. It is important that when we do this work, we make sure that children and young people are protected and anonymous. That means we must do a lot of work to ensure that no individual can be identified, and that the data is not used for anything other than this project. To achieve this, we are using thorough data governance processes and the Safe Haven system managed by National Records of Scotland (NRS) and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) so that individual children can never be identified within the data.
This study will develop our understanding of the impacts of formal kinship care. It will show us overall patterns in care journeys, service use, and outcomes which will help government and others to consider how best to meet the needs of children and young people in formal kinship care. Of course it won’t tell us everything, and it is important to note that this project will not tell us about the individual experiences of children and young people within formal kinship care, only about their care journeys and interactions with other services. Further research with children and young people themselves will be needed to fill that critical gap, and we hope that our work will stimulate further work in this area.
Finally, this study will also be used to establish the potential value of thematic reports of this type for policy workers, researchers, and others. If it is found to be useful to these groups, similar thematic reports might be completed for those in other living arrangements, for particular demographic groups, or groups of children and young people with particular needs.
Understanding the ‘big picture’ through administrative data will help us to understand common themes across these experiences, and support planning to make sure that services are there to meet the needs of all children and young people in formal kinship care.
The project will report its findings in 2022, and you can keep up to date on our progress on the SCADR website.
This article was published on 04 Nov 2021