Building better social care in Wales
I am from Scotland Growing up, I spent time in kinship care, residential schools, secure accommodation and foster homes. I had my first child when I was 17 years old. I have 2 other children; I was 23 when I had my second child and 27 when I had my third child. Do you think your experiences… Read More
I come from Italy and as a child I spent a period in foster care and one in residential care, for a total of 11 years. I became a father at the age of 34. Do you think your experiences growing up affect the way you parent? We learn a lot from childhood, from the… Read More
I was born in England but moved to Wales when I was young. Growing up, I spent time in foster care and residential care. I first came into care when I was 5 and I left when I was 16. For a lot of this time, I lived with one foster family. They were amazing… Read More
Welcome to our truly international ExChange Wales spring conference series 2023! It takes a village: Global perspectives on care-experienced parents is being delivered in partnership with the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC). Care leavers’ transition to parenthood is one of the most challenging transitions in their life. Having limited support… Read More
Christmas can be a particularly tricky time of conflicting emotions for young people who have grown up in care… Read More
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice? Read More
Thirty years of research has studied the experiences of young carers, children who care for family members due to an illness or disability, and highlighted the often negative impacts on their health, education and social opportunities… Read More
At Cardiff and Swansea University we researched over 30,000 children in Wales to understand what happens over time to children who have help from social services… Read More
In this blog Richard Devine gives a summary of an article by Juan Usubillaga, Clive Diaz & Donald Forrester. How are policies implemented in children’s services? Developing an initial programme theory to evaluate the implementation of the new Child Sexual Exploitation guidance in Wales A wealth of policy, guidance and law in social work guides… Read More
This forthcoming conference features live webinars, blogs, pre-recorded webinars and a range of resources aimed at sharing best practice in adult social care… Read More
