ExChange Wales is delighted to bring you this online workshop about Child Practice Reviews in Wales, following the cancellation of our workshops in Cardiff and Colwyn Bay earlier this year (due to the pandemic).
In this 45 minute workshop, Dr Alyson Rees and Dr Tom Slater from Cardiff University report findings from a qualitative, multi-disciplinary analysis of 20 Child Practice Reviews (CPRs) (previously Serious Case Review) in Wales. The reviews were analysed from three different disciplinary perspectives: law, criminology and practice (social work).
The presentation identifies the following cross-cutting themes: (i) hierarchy of knowledge, where certain sources of knowledge were privileged over others (ii) information sharing/recording, where deficiencies of sharing or recording of information were evident (iii) partial assessment, where certain assessments were not always holistic, and lastly, (iv) voice of the child, where the experience or perspective of the child was not always considered. This is the first study to explore themes emerging from (Welsh) CPRs and is also the first to do so from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
The workshop focuses on implications for practice and policy. We have provided the workshop video and a range of resources to go with it as follows:
Watch the workshop
This evaluation form can be returned via email to cascade@cardiff.ac.uk
