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On 3 March 2026, ADR Northern Ireland hosted an event at Parliament Buildings, Stormont - Children’s Social Care and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Connecting Data, Changing Futures. The event brought together experts by experience, policymakers, data owners, service providers and researchers to explore how using linked administrative data and lived experience can better inform policy and practice to prevent homelessness among social care experienced young people.
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We are delighted to share the ADR UK Annual Report 2024–25. Following a year of ambitious projects and growth, the report highlights how we continue to unlock the power of administrative data to inform policy and improve lives across the UK.
A major new report published today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), with funding from ADR UK, sets out a roadmap to widen secure access to HMRC data for research that delivers public value.
A new report by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), produced in collaboration with ADR UK, explores the experiences of children and young people in social care across the four UK nations.
The ADR England Research Community Catalyst: Children at Risk of Poor Outcomes project has today published four new reports aimed at transforming children's social care research. These analyse existing research in the field and compile stakeholder views, revealing gaps in evidence and setting an agenda for future research.
An independent, economic evaluation of the ADR UK programme conservatively estimates that ADR UK is returning a benefit-cost ratio of 5.05. This means that for every pound spent, there are just over £5 of benefits.
A report from researchers at the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) and the Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) has provided new insights into the experiences of children growing up in kinship care in Scotland. The study, the first of its kind, linked multiple data sources – including the Looked After Children Longitudinal dataset, health visit data, and child protection records – to explore the lives of more than 19,000 children in kinship care from 2008 to 2019. SCADR is part of ADR Scotland.
ADR Wales has published a report examining how to estimate the number of children not enrolled in state schools across Wales. Using linked data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank, the study supports potential regulations to create a database for tracking children missing from state education.
We are delighted to share the ADR UK Annual Report 2023 – 2024. Following a year of ambitious projects and significant progress, the report rounds up some key highlights across the ADR UK partnership. This year, ADR UK agreed on the priorities and activities for the final two years of the current investment period, which runs until March 2026. Public good has remained at the core of our work, and this year’s report highlights the potential of recent developments to improve people’s lives.
