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Machine learning in children’s services: does it work?

What Works for Children’s Social Care worked with four local authorities to develop models to predict eight outcomes for individual cases. The predictions all focused on a point within the children’s journey where the social worker would be making a decision about whether to intervene in a case or not and the level of intervention required, and looked ahead to see whether the case would escalate at a later point.

Outcomes for Looked-after Children Attending Boarding Schools

    Research
  • Wednesday, August 30, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Researchers from the University of Nottingham were commissioned by the Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation (RNCSF) to evaluate its boarding school programme for children in care or on the edge of care and help understand the potential educational and economic benefits.

Matching in foster care and how we can improve it

    Research
  • Tuesday, February 1, 2022
    • | CYP Now
The process of “matching” children and young people in care to their foster carers is a pivotal moment in the care journey; a good “match” decision, process of sharing information, and process of moving into the household can help a child feel safe, loved, and happy. In the UK, the majority of children in care live in fostering households and are affected by matching.

Children's Online User Ages Quantitative Research Study

    Research
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Children and young people can get around age restrictions on social media apps and websites, increasing the risk of them coming to harm online. To understand the extent to which children are bypassing age checks, UK communications regulator Ofcom commissioned research to get an idea of how many children have online profiles that make them appear older than they actually are.

Child sexual exploitation: research evidence

    Research
  • Tuesday, August 31, 2021
    • | CYP Now
Kairika Karsna, senior research and evaluation officer at the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, on why we need to ensure that we are capturing and understanding all forms of sexual abuse.

Transition from care to college

How the Higher Education Champions mentor support programme has helped looked-after children move successfully to university, and the key factors behind its success.

Creative Life Story Work strengthens care relationships

    Research
  • Tuesday, January 31, 2023
    • | CYP Now
Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story work has shown it to be higher quality and more collaborative than traditional life story work, and that it helps to develop and strengthen relationships between care-experienced children and young people and their carers.

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