Christmas can be a particularly tricky time of conflicting emotions for young people who have grown up in care… Read More
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice?
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice? Read More
The young carer spectrum: Investigating the larger population to better understand and support those with problematic caring roles.
Thirty years of research has studied the experiences of young carers, children who care for family members due to an illness or disability, and highlighted the often negative impacts on their health, education and social opportunities… Read More
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice?
At Cardiff and Swansea University we researched over 30,000 children in Wales to understand what happens over time to children who have help from social services… Read More
The impact of staff training in VIG for professionals and families
Maxwell, Nina , Rees, Alyson and Thomas, Sue 2019. The impact of staff training in VIG for professionals and families. Cardiff: CASCADE.
Impact: Improving Adult Social Care Together
IMPACT is the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care… Read More
Empowering bystanders against domestic abuse
Domestic abuse is a major public health, human rights and criminal justice concern, costing the UK an estimated £66 billion every year… Read More
Stretching the Strengths Approach Imagination
It is over 30 years since the publication of an influential paper by Ann Weick, Charles Rudd, Patrick Sullivan and Walter Kisthardt, which crystallized a case for a ‘strengths perspective’ in social work. This perspective evolved from a shared determination to turn away from a policy and practice focus on ‘problems’, ‘deficits’, ‘the negative aspects of peoples and society’ (Weick et al 1989, p. 350), and their disempowering mark. Weick et al (1989) situate this perspective as an expression of social work’s values, and as challenge to rethink professional and institutional power which diminishes a person’s capacity to be the expert in their own lives… Read More
CASCADE Talks: Building and developing strengths-based approaches in adult services
Interdependence, Attachment and Positive Contribution: why relationships matter in strengths based practice
In a Social Care assessment, if a person has eligible needs identified, then the worker considers what, from the person’s assets and strengths can be drawn upon in order to meet those needs. The Worker is encouraged to consider assets first, services last thus preventing, reducing or delaying the need for perhaps more formalised input… Read More
