Using Data Responsibly to Improve Outcomes for Every Child
The Data for Children Collaborative is a specialist unit within the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh.
Our mission is to provide the best conditions for bringing together the right data and the right expertise to improve outcomes for every child.
We build innovative ways of enabling impactful collaborations between academia, the third, the public and the private sectors and delivering projects responsibly.
We bring together diverse expertise and the appropriate data from our community to address complex problems facing children.
We work with a range of partners to identify demand-driven challenges that require a data-driven solution.
All of our projects are child-focused and work towards one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals and/or the National Performance Framework.
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We work with partners on an end-to-end challenge or support specific activities.
Having crafted a set of approaches, frameworks and methodologies to work on complex challenges, we aim to share these far and wide. We have designed a service offering to work on an end-to-end challenge with a partner, or to apply component parts of our service to specific situations.
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Our 2024 Annual Report
2024 was another year of progress across our portfolio at Data for Children Collaborative. The wide variety of our activities tells a story of how versatile and transferable Data for Children's Collaborative approaches, tools, and methods are. We aim to create a legacy of tools and methods to support our immediate community and many other areas where disciplines and organisations come together to address humanity's wicked problems
