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The government have plans to join up more data sets.

Recommendation
The government have plans to join up more data sets. For example, the Department for Education told us about work it has planned to link anonymised data on education, hospital admissions, mental health services, community services and maternity services. In response to our questions about how quickly it would develop a strategy in response to the analysis, the Department for Education told us that there wouldn’t be a “single, giant thing” but that it would enable it to “ask and answer better questions over time”.67 61 SVA0007 62 C&AG’s Report, Figure 9 63 SVA0009 64 CA&G’s Report, paras 13, 2.18 65 Q 94 66 Qq 61, 94 67 Qq 64, 67 18 Support for vulnerable adolescents
Government Response

A response document is linked to this report, dated 30 May 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document.

Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 3.6 yrs
Report published 22 Feb 2023