What happens to the information you give us?
Everything that you tell us in your interview will be typed into a computer and held securely. The information you give us will be treated in strict confidence and according to the rules laid down by the Data Protection Act and Market Research Society’s Code of Conduct.
Your name and your personal details will be stored in a way that will ensure it remains safe (encrypted). Your personal information will be kept separate from the answers you gave to the interview questions. This means that, except for a small group of researchers, it will be impossible for anyone to work out that the answers we have collected were given by YOU, or to know what YOU have experienced. The researchers will tell no one, unless you ask them to or they believe you are in immediate danger of significant harm.
The results of the study will be written up in published reports in which no one will be able to identify you. Your answers will be combined with other people’s answers, showing how many children and young people all over the UK today have experienced the same sorts of dangerous or risky situations.