Adopting Together is an innovative, child-focused adoption service. It is being led by a partnership between St David’s Children Society and Barnardo’s Cymru, with both organisations recruiting and supporting families for children who… Read More
Intergenerational Care in Care Homes: Caveats and Considerations
The session provided practitioners with the opportunity to learn more about intergenerational care and think about how they could overcome the potential challenges of… Read More
Intergenerational care in care homes: Caveats and considerations
This workshop provides practitioners with the opportunity to learn more about intergenerational care and overcoming the potential challenges of supporting… Read More
Fostering Wellbeing workshop
With care-experienced children currently experiencing overall poorer outcomes compared to their counterparts in areas such as mental health, criminality and education – this programme was seen as a way to help… Read More
Adopting Together – Working together to improve outcomes for children who wait
Adopting Together is an innovative, child-focused adoption service. It is being led by a partnership between St David’s Children Society and… Read More
Autumn conference announcement
We are very excited to introduce our autumn conference “All you need is love? Reflecting on relationships in the care system.” Read More
Are care leavers really more likely to go to prison than university?
For those of you who don’t like a long read, the short answer is that nobody actually knows for sure, but that it looks somewhere between unlikely and very unlikely… Read More
‘Are we ready’ Conference with Voices From Care Cymru, 4th September
Are you ready for the ‘Are We Ready’ conference on 4th September? Join Voices From Care Cymru in Llandrindod Wells. Contact Jane@vfcc.org.uk or call 029 20451431 to register by 12th August. Please spread the word! Click here for more information.
How can we improve the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation?
On 21st June 2019 (Cardiff) and 26th June (Bangor) ExChange welcomed Natalie Roberts from Bangor University to deliver a workshop on the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation. Findings were presented from a project working with a North Wales based homeless charity, Digartref. Attendees included a wide array of professionals, many of whom… Read More
Practitioner Workshop: Decision-making in child and family social work – can we learn to do it better?
This workshop aimed to provide a brief introduction to what we know about how social workers make decisions, followed by some practical exercises to test out and see what difference they might make. The workshop was led by Dr David Wilkins and Dr Catherine Foster. The workshop began by exploring the importance of the decisions made by social… Read More
