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PhD students who are accredited researchers can now apply for access to the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset, expanding opportunities for early-career researchers to undertake research using linked administrative data.
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ADR UK Research Fellow Hanna Creese has been using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset to explore how health and socioeconomic factors relate to school attendance. But data alone rarely tells the whole story. So Hanna turned to the experts themselves: young people with lived experience of struggling to attend school.
This blog by Xingna Zhang, an ADR UK Research Fellow using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) dataset, explores whether an autism diagnosis helps children and young people access the support they need, and what she found out by consulting doctors and people with lived experience directly.
ADR UK Research Fellow, Hope Kent, shares her personal reflections on her attendance at the Council of Europe Conference for Directors of Prison and Probation 2025.