This article from Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland, explores how researchers and care-experienced young people worked together as equal partners to shape a data-driven research project. It aims to show what co-production looks like in practice, why it matters, and what helps or hinders success.

ADR (Administrative Data Research) Northern Ireland, VOYPIC (Voice of Young People in Care) have co-created an animation with care-experienced young people. Sharing their insights combined with administrative data to amplify their voices and better inform services.

ADR (Administrative Data Research) Northern Ireland, VOYPIC (Voice of Young People in Care have co-produced a report with care-experienced young people to showcase the value of administrative data for understanding the relationship between children’s social care contact and homelessness risk in Northern Ireland.