Questions from the Scottish Government The Promise Data and Evidence Group:
Justice
Children with care experience as victims of crime: What factors influence whether victimisation of children experiencing the ‘care system’ is identified, reported, and responded to, including caring environment, trusted relationships, and interactions with police, social work, and other services?
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Children with care experience as victims of crime: To what extent are crimes against children experiencing the ‘care system’ visible within justice and safeguarding systems, and is there evidence that victimisation is more likely to go unreported or unrecorded for this group?
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Children with care experience as victims of crime: How common is victimisation among children and young people experiencing the ‘care system’ compared to their non‑care‑experienced peers, and how does this vary by age, caring environment, care history, and local area?
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Prevention and support: How do care, justice, health, and education systems interact to either mitigate or reinforce the criminalisation of care experienced children, and where are the most effective points for intervention to prevent avoidable justice involvement?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: How do transitions, including moves between homes, moves between services, and transitions out of care, interact with justice involvement, and where are children most vulnerable to escalation or loss of support?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: How do care experienced children or young people describe peers as influential on their engagement with, or avoidance of, the justice system; and how does this compare with the views of children who do not experience care?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: What proportion of children living cross-border in residential caring environments come into contact with the justice system, and how does this compare with children in residential care placed within their home jurisdiction?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: What are the short‑ and longer‑term outcomes for care experienced children who experience different justice responses (e.g. diversion, secure care), and how do these outcomes vary by context and support received?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: How do patterns of justice contact differ for children experiencing care in different caring environments (including residential care, foster care, kinship care, and at home), and what mechanisms help explain these differences?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: What pathways lead care experienced children and young people into contact with the justice system, and how do these pathways differ by age, caring environment, care history, and experiences of stability, support, and unmet need?
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Interactions with the justice system and criminalisation: To what extent is the over-representation of care experienced children in justice processes explained by intersecting factors such as poverty, disability, neurodivergence, and prior adversity, and what additional role does care experience itself appear to play?
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Physical Health
Early Childhood Development (ECD): How do physical health and early developmental outcomes for infants and young children who are experiencing care vary by caring environment and age at first experience of the ‘care system’, and what factors influence these differences?
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Physical Health
Experiences of services and support: To what extent do continuity of care and trust in health professionals, including across the transition out of care, impact on care experienced children and young people’s physical health outcomes?
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Physical Health
Continuity and access to services: How do key transition points – including moves between homes, stability of caring environments, changes in professional support, leaving care, and moving from child to adult health services – affect continuity of physical health support, engagement with services, and health outcomes for care‑experienced young people? What models of health transition planning and support for care‑experienced young people (for example at the point of leaving care or moving into adult services) have been most effective in maintaining connection, engagement, and trust in health services?
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