Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards

Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards Craig Brierley Thu, 10/15/2026 - 19:00 The team reviewed the existing evidence, bringing together studies that capture the views of more than 4,700 children and young people and almost 1,500 parents and carers on the use of large health datasets – ‘big data’ – in children’s healthcare research. They found that children and young people, parents and carers were broadly supportive of using health data for research where there was a clear potential benefit, including improving healthcare, advancing scientific kno