Spring and Summer Events – ExChange and CARE

We will be launching bookings for our June conference series on Informal Carers across the lifespan in our next bulletin in May.  Sign up to our mailing list to be notified when the registrations are live. Make a note in your diaries – lunchtime webinars will include: Registrations will be launched in the May bulletin! In… Read More

ExChange Wales Conference Series cited in Welsh Government Ministerial Statement

The written statement by Jane Hutt MS, Cabinet Member for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip, and Dawn Bowden MS, Minister for Children and Social Care, sets out Welsh Government’s commitment to take urgent action to address the profound and lasting harm caused by criminal exploitation of children. The ministers stated their response would be… Read More

Webinar: Adult Safeguarding Observed: How Social Workers Assess and Manage Risk and Uncertainty.

Doing Adult Safeguarding with Service Users and Carers Presented by: Dr Jeremy Dixon, University of Bath *A discount code will be provided to attendees for those who wish to purchase Jeremy’s book, Adult Safeguarding Observed* This presentation describes social workers’ accounts of doing adult safeguarding work with service users, family carers and paid carers. It… Read More

Webinar: Championing a research culture within Adult Social Care

Championing a research culture within Adult Social Care – How are we making robust decisions without calling upon the research base? Research enriched practice has always been a gold standard within social care. However, making it a natural part of practice within busy frontline local authority teams dealing with complex and fluid situations has always… Read More

Supporting mental health and wellbeing in secondary schools and colleges.

Care-experienced children and young people may experience more problems with their mental health and have lower wellbeing than their non-care-experienced peers. Schools are seen as an important setting for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all children and young people, but there are few school-based interventions that are specifically designed to support care-experienced students… Read More

Webinar: Supporting people with mental health problems to build social networks and reduce loneliness

Our third webinar in our conference series – On the Journey: Navigating Mental Health “Supporting people with mental health problems to build social networks and reduce loneliness: lessons for practice and research from intervention trials” Abstract People with mental health problems are more likely to have smaller networks and experience loneliness and social isolation than… Read More