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Data for Children Collaborative Launches Collaborative Project with The Promise Scotland and Partners Examining How to Overcome Barriers in Data and Information Sharing

A new, a transdisciplinary, collaborative project with The Promise Scotland and partners to understand and overcome the legal, technical, and cultural barriers to data and information sharing relating to care experienced children, young people and their families across public sector agencies and organisations in Scotland.  

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Annual Report 2023

Our annual report is a chance for us to reflect on our progress, what we've learned and, most importantly, how we use data to improve children's outcomes. We are excited to share with you some of the highlights, showing how our work continues to create real-world impact.

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Data for Children Collaborative’s Deputy Director Fraser Macdonald Winner of the Data for Good Champion DataIQ 2023 Award

Fraser Macdonald, Deputy Director at the Data for Children Collaborative, has been honoured with the prestigious DataIQ Award for 2023 in the Data for Good Champion category. This award recognises his outstanding dedication to utilising data and analytics to improve society, mainly focusing on child-centric challenges.  

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Welcoming our new Senior Project Manager – Olivia Hale

A short interview with our new Senior Project Manager, Olivia Hale. Olivia joined our team in May this year with extensive project management experience, thorough understanding of knowledge exchange and impact best practice in a research environment, and knowledge of internal structures/networks at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia has indeed hit the ground running in her new role.  

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Young people in Scotland - have your voice heard in a survey on Sport & Exercise!

We are calling all young people aged between 13-18 years old living in Scotland! We want to hear about your experiences of sport and exercise before, during and after the pandemic. By participating in this, you can share your stories and photos of what sport and exercise mean to you.

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Dictionary Series – What is the practical reality of practising Collective Leadership and are we getting it right?

At the Data for Children Collaborative, we continually reflect on our own methods and seek opportunities to refine how we deliver on complex challenges. Response to March Dictionary Entry by Kristy Docherty on Collective Leadership. Crafted by Fraser Macdonald - Data for Children Collaborative, Deputy Director 

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Collaborative team working on "Understanding sports activity in Scotland through data" project to capture real-life experiences of children, families and supporting organisations.

Abertay University's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences has launched a research study to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children and young people's recreational sport and exercise participation in Scotland.  The sturdy is a part of a collaborative, nationwide project with the Observatory for Sport in Scotland, Data for Children Collaborative, and private sector organisations.

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Dictionary Series: What is Collective Leadership and can it help us work differently?

Generally, when it comes to collaborating, our attention is naturally concentrated on ‘what do we want to achieve?’ This answer is almost always focused on the task or the reason for collaborating in the first place.  This is not wrong, however, what if we took the time to think about how we would like to work as a group, to notice how we work, how we are interacting, and how we are behaving, as we collaborate? 

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