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Article History

Received: 4 June 2025

Accepted: 30 March 2026

First Online: 29 April 2026

Declarations

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: This study was given a favourable opinion by the University of Salford research ethics committee reference 3171.

: The caregivers of all participants provided their consent for their children’s anonymised data to be used for research purposes due to parental responsibility and data was parent outcome data.

: When providing informed consent, participants’ families were aware that results would be published. No identifiable information is presented in this paper.

: The first, second, third, fourth, and seventh author are currently employed at the host service in which this piece of research took place however the authors feel that this did not present a conflict of interest particularly as all data analysis was completed independent of the host service by the fifth author.