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.  

The policy recommendations report launched today can support Scotland’s vision of embedding children’s rights through a robust national sports strategy.

Data for Children Collaborative’s nutrition team published the final report for their impact collaboration project on the Impact of Seasonality on Nutrition Surveys.

The National Museum of Scotland hosted a series of children's art-science collaborative events as a part of Data for Children Collaborative's ‘Children’s Climate Risk Index’ project.

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.

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.

On 25th October 2022, UNICEF released a report: “The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves”.

In line with Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re delighted to share some of the outputs and findings from our project focused on adolescent mental health.

For Earth Day 2022, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). As children are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, it is fundamental for them to be recognised as agents capable of determining their own futures.

Robust population data is fundamental for many UN agencies to operate efficiently and effectively. But there are widespread, and very valid, concerns about its accuracy. Across the UN, different teams are exploring how to obtain, and maintain, more accurate data – using satellite data, social media and machine learning along the way.

Northern Alliance regional improvement collaborative colleagues are working with the Data for Children Collaborative on a project to explore how to make better use of data to assess the poverty-related attainment gap across eight local authorities.

The climate crisis is a child’s rights crisis. What can you do to help put children at the heart of climate action? In line with today’s focus on youth and public empowerment, we are releasing our policy brief based on our contributions to the Children’s Climate Risk Index.

Given that good mental health is fundamental to children’s well-being, greater global investments are needed to support the services required to meet the complex and multifaceted mental-health challenges that children face today.

The Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF supports the delivery of a new Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI) which will provide UNICEF with vital information about where children are most at-risk from the impacts of climate change, both now and in the future.

Our partners at the ONS FCDO Data Science Hub have been exploring if machine learning methods and publicly available spatial datasets can be used to map and understand HIV risk in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa for our HIV project.

Our Population Estimation project team have recently published a paper on their work so far.

When Covid-19 forced the closure of schools in Scotland to most pupils in March 2020, there was widespread concern about the impact this might have on the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

The theme of this year’s World Obesity Day is #EveryBodyNeedsEverybody.

Read about the work our nutrition project team has been doing to analyse the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort of data to inform the design of obesity/overweight surveillance systems internationally.

We hosted a webinar to celebrate the achievements of our first Impact Collaborations project: ‘Addressing socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland: A review of capability and available data assets.’ You can access the recording here.

Read all about the impacts of our Building Footprint Identification project.