How does the process work?

1. You and your child will be assigned a unique identifier code (unique ID).
2. We securely send your and your child’s unique ID, name, sex, address and date of birth to the named government departments and agencies that hold your routine records, or to a trusted organisation that hold the records on their behalf. These personal details will only be used to help identify your records accurately. During this process we do not send your survey responses or any other information about you or your child to these government organisations. 
3. The government departments and agencies use your personal details to find your records. This is done by trusted organisations or specialist researchers in secure environments. 
4. The government departments and agencies then send the information taken from your records, together with your unique ID, back to the Generation New Era team or to the data store that will hold the information.
5. Your unique ID is used to match the information from your and your child’s routine records to your survey responses. 
6. The linked data containing the survey responses and routine data is made available to researchers via the UCL Data Safe Haven, UK Data Service, UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and other secure research environments. The data used by researchers does not contain any names, addresses, or other personal details that could directly identify individuals in the study.