Building better social care in Wales
I come from Italy but have Albanian origins. As a child I spent 13 years in residential care. I had my first child at 23 and my second at 26. Do you think your experiences growing up affect the way you parent? The first thing is that I always wanted a family and I was… Read More
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
Christmas can be a particularly tricky time of conflicting emotions for young people who have grown up in care… 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
Domestic abuse is a major public health, human rights and criminal justice concern, costing the UK an estimated £66 billion every year… Read More
Project Unity is a NYAS Cymru project funded by Welsh Government… Read More
Complex interventions are generally described as containing several interacting components due to intersecting issues or complexity of need… Read More
Times have changed and children are no longer ‘seen and not heard’ – policy makers and experts talk about and recognise the importance of hearing the voices of children and young people and of providing services that meet their needs… Read More
