A sizeable minority of children and young people in England face a significant range of vulnerabilities and disadvantages. These include those already known to children’s social care, children in need, those eligible for free school meals (FSM) because of low family income, those with SEND, in particular those who have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans and those who attend Alternative Provision. Given the human, economic and social cost of poor performance in this area, we are seeking evidence on the best ways to improve outcomes for these children and young people, before issues become acute and require more significant intervention
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Background There are serious challenges facing social care, education and health services for children and young people in England. Beyond high profile cases of avoidable child deaths, the social costs of poor outcomes ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Imperial College London
The project aims to develop a research-ready dataset linking data on children and young people, which can provide evidence on the impact and effectiveness of programs for vulnerable children.
National and local organisations produce a wealth of valuable data, which can be used to understand how we can reduce the number of children at risk of poor social, health and educational outcomes. However, at present, t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Swansea University
The project establishes a national community catalyst to connect researchers and analysts using administrative data for child-focused research, aligning with the question's focus on improving outcomes for vulnerable children.
This one-year feasibility study will explore and establish an Evidence Request Bank to produce and share appraised summaries of evidence for the voluntary and public sectors, in direct response to their practice needs. T...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project focuses on developing an Evidence Request Bank to produce and share evidence summaries for public and voluntary sectors, which could partially address the question on improving outcomes for vulnerable children.