The last 20 years has seen a huge increase in the rates of children in care in Wales… Read More
Blog by Heléna Herklots, Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
The language that is used to describe all of us as we get older is largely negative… Read More
Stretching the Strengths Based Approach Imagination
It is over 30 years since the publication of an influential paper by Ann Weick, Charles Rudd, Patrick Sullivan and Walter Kisthardt, which crystallized a case for a ‘strengths perspective’ in social work… Read More
CASCADE Talks: Building and developing strengths-based approaches in adult services
CASCADE Talks: Co-production and Asset Based approaches
Co-production is about valuing everyone and understanding that we all have something to contribute to solutions… Read More
Interdependence, Attachment and Positive Contribution: why relationships matter in strengths based practice
In a Social Care assessment, if a person has eligible needs identified, then the worker considers what, from the person’s assets and strengths can be drawn upon in order to meet those needs. The Worker is encouraged to consider assets first, services last thus preventing, reducing or delaying the need for perhaps more formalised input… Read More
An interview with Lyn Romeo
Lyn Romeo has been the Chief Social Worker in England for Adults since September 2013. In the past, Lyn worked as an Assistant Director for Adult Social Care in the London Borough of Camden, an inspector with the Social Services Inspectorate, and also worked in Yorkshire as a field social worker. This interview is conducted… Read More
Thoughts on Strengths-based approaches
I am passionate about strengths-based approaches to social work practice, so much so that I have dedicated my doctoral research project to studying this field. I hope that my work will help to shape the development of systems and structures that support real strengths-based working across adult services. But what do I mean when I… Read More
Care experienced parenting in Italy
I am an Italian PhD student at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento, visiting Cardiff University and CASCADE for a few months. In this blog I will tell you something about my PhD related to care experienced parenting and I would like to start by telling you something about… Read More
Stories about social work…
The human ability to tell stories is perhaps our most important characteristic. As Mary Catherine Bateson said: “The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.” Stories allow us to share understandings, emotions and motivations. They allow us to cooperate on a scale no other animal can – through shared stories about nations or… Read More
