Assessing potential inequalities in adolescent outcomes amongst looked after children

有护理经验的儿童(CEC)在童年和以后的生活中比其他年轻人的结果更差。改善CEC的结果是苏格兰政府的高度优先事项，并构成了最近的一项独立护理审查的基础，该审查批评了缺乏联合数据和对不同类型护理旅程的CEC的结果缺乏了解。这个博士项目旨在通过汇集苏格兰儿童和年轻人的多个管理数据集来填补这两个空白。该项目将包括对一组CEC和一组匹配的非CEC进行纵向分析，以确定“关爱之旅类型”，并检查青春期的结果，主要关注较长期的关爱、教育和死亡率结果，但也有考察社会福利和刑事司法结果的雄心。通过将以前未链接的数据集链接在一起，这种学生身份有可能更好地为政策提供信息，并为与CEC合作的服务机构提供信息。它还将纳入苏格兰ADR内部关于改善儿童生活和结果数据的关键工作计划。

Care-experienced children (CEC) have poorer outcomes than other young people, both in childhood and later life. Improving outcomes for CEC is a high priority for the Scottish Government and formed the basis of a recent Independent Care Review, which was critical of the lack of joined up data and poor understanding of the outcomes for CEC with different types of care journey. This PhD project aims to plug both of these gaps by bringing together multiple administrative datasets for children and young people in Scotland. The studentship will involve conducting longitudinal analysis of a cohort of CEC and a matched group of non-CEC to identify 'care journey typologies' and examine outcomes in adolescence, principally focusing on longer term care, educational and mortality outcomes, but with an ambition to also examine social welfare and criminal justice outcomes. By linking together previously unlinked datasets, this studentship has the potential to better inform policy and inform services working with CEC. It will also feed into a key programme of work within ADR Scotland around improving data on children's lives and outcomes.