Children's needs and outcomes

Introduction

A research team at CASE is contributing to the Children’s Information Project (CIP), a large policy and practice orientated strategic research programme led by Leon Feinstein at Oxford Rees Centre and funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Opportunities for researchers to work directly with practitioners and children, young people and their families to deliver improvements to services and policy are all too rare. This project is a genuine collaboration between research organisations and local authority partners and aims to drive social change and deliver long-term impact by co-designing and delivering a series of innovations in the use of children’s information, data and voice in policy and practice. It represents a unique opportunity to work at the frontiers of research, partnership and innovation.

The Children's Information Project (CIP) is a large research programme funded by Nuffield Foundation and led by Leon Feinstein at Oxford Rees Centre. Partners include Sussex University, Research in Practice (a research organisation focussing on evidence-informed policy and practice) and four local areas - North Yorkshire Council, Hampshire County Council, Oldham Council and Rochdale Borough Council - as well as CASE, with CASE leading on the needs workstream.

Polly Vizard, Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) is a co-investigator on the project and Sophie Kedzior, CASE Rearch Officer, is also working on the project.

More information on the project will be available soon.