Wellbeing Economy Cymru 2024

Please note: This event is being hosted externally and not through Exchange Wales. Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources. 18th November 202411:00 – 17:00Swansea Arena, Oystermouth Road Bae Copr Bay SA1 3BX 4theRegion,… Read More

Wales’ Professional Learning Resources – A Teacher’s perspective

Wales’ Professional Learning Resourceshttps://educationwales.blog.gov.wales/2024/04/17/4218/ For the first time, Professional Learning resources have been centralised in one place on Hwb. The freshly categorised and classified resources are now readily searchable and accessible to all education practitioners across Wales via the professional learning area. The professional learning area has been organised to help practitioners find the right resources… Read More

Boosting standards: a view from schools Secondary headteachers conference

Please note: This event is being hosted externally and not through Exchange Wales. Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources. 8th November 202410:30 –15:00 Welcome to the booking form for the forthcoming Secondary Headteachers… Read More

Primary school children with Special Guardianship Orders.

Educational needs of primary school children with Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) This blog is written by Lorna Stabler and Daisy Chaudhuri. Lorna is a research fellow at CASCADE (Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre) and is leading a new study focusing on Special Guardianship. Daisy is a consultant on this new study. She brings… Read More

Findings from the 2024 Annual Child & Family Poverty Survey

Please note: This event is being hosted externally and not through Exchange Wales. Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources. Thursday 3 October, 202410:00am – 11:15amOnline Please join us for this free to attend… Read More

What helps care experienced students transition to higher education

There is often an assumption that care-experienced young people do not go to university. However, whilst it is true that care-experienced young people are under-represented in higher education, many do go to university and succeed in their degree studies. My research, funded by the Society for Research into Higher Education and published in the British… Read More

The RESPECT billboard: envisaging a future without racism for children

The RESPECT Project (Racialised Experiences Project: Education, Children & Trust) has been funded by both UKRI and UWE, Bristol, and responds to calls to understand children’s racialised experiences and the impact this has on their mental health and wellbeing. Working with children, we co-produced a children’s picture book called If Racism Vanished for a Day…… Read More

Removing the “Reasonable Punishment” Defence in Wales

A paper written by Professor Sally Holland, former Children’s Commissioner for Wales traces the history of attempted legislation around corporal punishment of children from the A v UK (Council of Europe 1998) case to the present day. The paper reflects on the challenges of getting said Act passed, outlining how Julie Morgan MP for Cardiff… Read More

“My adventures in the Innowalk”: an illustrated storybook

By Dawn Pickering This illustrated storybook was created from a research study that explored the well-being effects from disabled children using the Innowalk. The Innowalk (Made for Movement, 2023) is a robotic device that supports non ambulant people to stand upright and move, by passively cycling their legs. The Innowalk is reported to have health… Read More