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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit
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Conducting high-quality research to support the development of evidence-based policy to improve the health of children and families.
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Sep 4
📢 New CPRU research project protocol on frameworks for describing health inequalities in observational public health research published today bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...
Frameworks for describing health inequalities in observational public health research: a scoping review protocol
Introduction Observational studies play a pivotal role in understanding population health trends and informing public health policy. However, many such studies inadequately address dimensions of healt...
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Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social · Jul 30
WATCH ▶️ By identifying how to consistently measure agreed outcomes for children experiencing #DomesticAbuse, our research will help build a more robust evidence base to inform policy & practice.

📄 foundations.org.uk/our-work/publications/selecting-and-validating-outcome-measures-for-the-dva-cos/
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Jul 31
📣 A report by @foundationsww.bsky.social on selecting and validating outcomes for interventions aimed at improving outcomes for children exposed to domestic abuse has just been published. The work builds on the core outcome set developed in previous CPRU work foundations.org.uk/our-work/pub...
Selecting and validating outcome measures for the Domestic Violence and Abuse Core Outcome Set (DVA-COS) - Foundations
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Jun 12
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Jun 12
📢 A new CPRU publication looks at chronic health conditions and school absence, exclusions, and non-enrolment academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
Chronic health conditions and school absence, exclusions, and non-enrolment: a cohort study using the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data database
AbstractBackground. Policies to reduce school absence can place a burden on children with chronic health conditions (CHCs). Although estimates suggest >
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Apr 24
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Apr 24
📢 A new CPRU publication looks at perspectives of children and young people's mental health practitioners who work with children with experience of intimate partner violence and complex family relationships. Read it here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Child mental health practitioners' perspectives on providing support for families where there is intimate partner violence: navigating complex family relationships and fear at home
Children who experience and are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) between their parents or carers are at greater risk of mental health proble…
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Apr 4
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Apr 4
📣 A new CPRU paper uses linked data on health, education and social care services to look at hospital admissions for children with SEN/care experience. Read it here www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hospital admissions among adolescents with local authority care experience or special educational needs in England: a population-based cohort study using linked administrative data from health, educat...
Background We aimed to quantify planned and unplanned hospital admissions during adolescence for pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and/or experience of care under local authority supervision...
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 31
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 31
Our recent paper found child maltreatment and/or parental domestic violence exposure incurs large personal and societal economic burdens. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The economic burden of child maltreatment and co-occurring parental domestic violence and abuse in the UK
Child maltreatment (CM) and parental domestic violence and abuse (pDVA) impose considerable lifelong adverse outcomes on those affected. Despite shari…
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 31
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 31
📣 New CPRU report identifies population-level health indicators for children <2y for use in the Start for Life outcomes framework. Our report also includes principles for monitoring service performance in this area. Read it here
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Start for Life Outcomes Framework: identifying candidate indicators
Start for Life Outcomes Framework: identifying candidate indicators
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 18
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 18
A recent CPRU paper in
@ijpds.bsky.social found 25% of all children living in England are recognised as a child in need by children's social care. One third are referred to children's social care at least once before 18y ijpds.org/article/view...
Estimated cumulative incidence of intervention by children's social care services to age 18: a whole-of-England administrative data cohort study using the child in need census | Internationa...
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
In a recent paper, we support a systems approach to address barriers to support for families experiencing intimate partner violence and mental health problems. There is a need to address the gap between child mental health and domestic abuse services www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
There was really high missing data in CSDS. From government statistics, we know that 79% of 2 years olds have this measure of child development collected but only 15% of children in CSDS had this data in their record.
NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
86% of 2y olds met expected level of development with inequalities across groups.
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
This is important for the Government's commitment to increasing the proportion of children 'ready to learn' at age 4-5 years.
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
We looked at the ASQ®-3 measure of child development collected at age 2-2½ years by health visiting teams and available at a national level in the Community Services Dataset CSDS).
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
Our new paper in @ijpds.bsky.social: analysis of inequalities in early child development ijpds.org/article/view...
Early child development in England: Cross-sectional analysis of ASQ®-3 records from the 2-2½-year universal health visiting review using national administrative data (Community Service Dataset, CSD...
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
Feb 2025: Recent work finds support for young people with chronic conditions is highly variable with caregivers and young people often unaware of what is available. We highlight a need for clarity in government guidance. continuityineducation.org/articles/10....
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NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit @ucl-cpru.bsky.social · Mar 17
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