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Project to improve sharing of social care data receives £2.8m grant

The Nuffield Foundation has awarded £2.8m to a research project aimed at better understanding the needs and experiences of vulnerable children and families.
Researchers will work with young people and families. Picture: Adobe Stock
Researchers will work with young people and families. Picture: Adobe Stock

The five-year project, led by Professor Leon Feinstein, director of the Rees Centre at the University of Oxford, includes a collaboration between local authorities and universities to transform how information about and from children and families is gathered, interpreted and used to influence child and family social policy at local and national levels.

The project will focus on children and families who need additional support from local authority children’s services including children and families referred to children’s social care services, younger children who need help to have a good start at school and children in care and young people leaving care.

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