Beth Lee-Shield, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, is conducting research to examine characteristics and care journeys of care-experienced children. Linking to health and education data, she aims to identify whether certain care journeys impact more negatively on outcomes, including...

In this pilot project, we worked in partnership with Children in Scotland to talk with children and young people about their administrative data.

This research will explore the care histories of children in Scotland, including infants born into care. 

This research will explore the variation between schools and local authorities in their policies and practice in relation to temporary exclusions and authorised/unauthorised absence in a natural policy experiment using linked longitudinal administrative data.

This study aims to analyse and summarise what is currently happening for children living in kinship care, where a formal decision has been made that a child should live with a relative separate from their parent(s). We hope that the knowledge generated by the study will contribute to...