‘Maybe a maverick, maybe a parent, but definitely not an honorary nurse’: Social worker perspectives on the role and nature of social work in mental health care.

Article review by Professor Jonathan Scourfield on the article ‘Maybe a maverick, maybe a parent, but definitely not an honorary nurse: Social worker perspectives on the role and nature of social work in mental health care.’ Read More

Registration for the Health and Care Research Wales conference on 14 October is open now!

The theme of this year’s event is learning and looking forward and after the success of last year’s event, it will again be an entirely digital day.  There are some great plenary sessions lined up on important topics including: Health and care research: learning from the pandemic; Research, innovation and improvement and Recovery and learning: new ideas… Read More

Motivational Interviewing for working with children and families – a conversation

MI is now widely used in services for children, playing a key part in innovations such as Family Drug and Alcohol Courts, the Family Safeguarding model and Intensive Family Support Teams. In this session Steve Rollnick (co-creator of Motivational Interviewing) spoke with Donald Forrester, David Wilkins and Charlie Whittaker about their forthcoming book on this… Read More

How Does the Well-Being of Children in Foster Care in Wales Compare with that of other Welsh Children?

Well-being is meant to be at the heart of services for children and adults in Wales – yet there is little research on the wellbeing of children in care. How happy and satisfied are children in care in Wales – particularly compared to other children? This seminar reports on research comparing children in care with… Read More

What difference does local authority care make to the lives of vulnerable children? Longitudinal analyses of a retrospective electronic cohort

The proposed research aims to examine, over time, education and health outcomes of children who are looked after (CLA) by the local authority (i.e. in care). Existing studies that use only one point in time have shown that CLA have poorer educational and health outcomes than the general population. Pre-care experiences, such as physical abuse,… Read More