Using data to improve children and young people’s lives

This report calls for data-driven approaches focused on the needs of young people in England to be embedded into the forthcoming children’s social care reforms to improve commissioning, practice and outcomes. It analyses data on needs and cost for 3,500 young people. It finds a limited correlation between the needs of young people, the costs of their care, and the type of care they receive.

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