In the above example, surveys undertaken as part of The Good Childhood Report contribute to the Office for National Statistics’ Wellbeing Measurement Framework and the DfE’s annual State of the Nation reports on children’s wellbeing.
Another example is, The Homelessness Monitor israel rcs data and related work. Here not only has the data-led research influenced government policy across the four nations of the UK, it has also led to improvements in collating government homelessness statistics, input into work by The Housing Federation and Crisis, the homelessness charity, and contributed to changing approaches to social and affordable housing.
The golden strands of data impact become more complex and intricate as they interweave.
That’s why the impact team at the UK Data Service has been developing an enhanced approach to evidencing and promoting impact. While we will still look at the impact of data-underpinned research on its own, for the past couple of years we have been exploring the bigger interconnected stories of impact.
We chose three areas to explore in our new impact themes approach:
Poverty, deprivation and the cost of living crisis.