Building better social care in Wales
Child Friendly Cardiff wants to reach as many children and young people as possible and support to have fun and nurture their social, emotional, mental and physical wellbeing over the Summer Holidays. To connect with as many people as possible, they are supporting a large number of organisations to provide a wide range of activities in all areas of the city… Read More
An Arts Active Summer of Fun outdoor adventure for all the family. You’ll be guided along Bute Park in Cardiff, completing tasks along the way, with a little help from senior agents from the Department of Strange Events… Read More
A one day special free event for Children and Young people at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with activities ranging from free play, music, gaming, sport’s science, techie and tether… Read More
This half-day training course is aimed at practitioners working with children under 7 years or with their families in a range of settings including child care, family support, playwork, outdoor and arts activities… Read More
World Children’s Day at St Fagan’s National Museum of History. A day packed full of exciting and interactive workshops, discussions and live entertainment, especially for the young people of Wales to enjoy and get involved with… Read More
Every year in July, Samaritans branches in the UK and Republic of Ireland hold local events to raise awareness that Samaritans are here to listen to anyone who’s struggling to cope, at any time of the day or night… Read More
This open course offers an introduction to the concept of Cultural Competence and what this means in the context of fostering, kinship and adoption work. This session explores the knowledge and understanding needed to complement a culturally competence approach and aims to increase practitioners’ confidence in working with diversity and difference… Read More
The Child Permanence Report (CPR) is the primary document used by the Agency Decision Maker to reach their decision that the child ‘should be placed for adoption’. The CPR also provides information for adoption panels to reach their recommendations when children are being placed for adoption with the consent of their birth parents… Read More
Kinship Foster Carers (Connected Persons) often don’t choose to be foster carers, but the law requires them to be assessed, supervised and supported as a foster carer to ensure a child in care can remain in a regulated placement. For many reasons, it can be difficult to achieve approval of some kinship foster carers, and the ‘placement’ becomes unlawful or unregulated. Read More
The purpose of this open course is to give participants an opportunity to consider what good practice in assessing adult relationships is, exploring their own values and assumptions and to consider the importance of attachment styles; motivation; sex and sexuality; and loss and infertility… Read More
