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Abstract
Established researchers and analysts were invited to take part in the future of children challenge research springboard using Understanding Society data. 24 attended in person for the first of the three contact days to explore three topic areas of interest: (1) Child development (2) Child poverty and family resources (3) Childcare & early years provision. Four teams formed around four research questions, who worked together over the following three months to generate results which were presented on the third and final day to a research and policy panel of experts who offered feedback and suggestions for how to develop further outputs targeted at influencing policy. This working paper outlines the high-level findings of the teams.