The session offers an overview of the Reunification Practice Framework, a comprehensive framework that brings together research insights, practical guidance and tools to support practitioners to gather robust evidence and make structured professional judgements around safe permanency decisions… Read More
Sharing key messages from the evaluation of the ‘Gwella’ intervention
The intervention was designed to support children aged between 5 and 11 years old who were involved with social services and had experienced trauma and abuse, providing a trauma-informed system of supportive… Read More
Work and resilience: Care leavers’ experiences of navigating towards employment and independence
Article Review by Dr David Wilkins – Work and resilience: Care leavers’ experiences of navigating towards employment and independence Read More
Videos
Our events and resources enrich skills while foregrounding the lived experience of care-experienced people. All ExChange Wales webinars are available on our YouTube channel.
Strengths-based practice in social work with adults
Article Review by Professor Jonathan Scourfield on the article Strengths-based practice in social work with adults Read More
Article Reviews
In Article Reviews academics from CASCADE will identify an important recent article, summarise its findings and provide some critical thinking about the research and its implications. Read More
Child protection social work in COVID-19: home visits and digital intimacy
Article Review: Professor Harry Ferguson has used observational methods to explore what social workers do during home visits and how their work involves negotiated movement in intimate physical spaces… Read More
‘What the Public Think About Social Services’, a report from Scotland
Article review by Dr David Wilkins on the article: What the Public Think About Social Services, A Report from Scotland Read More
Out-of-home care-experienced children’s educational careers: what can be learnt…
It is well known that children with out-of-home care (OHC) experience perform poorly within school and in the educational system. However, we know less about their educational careers over time… Read More
Getting our voices heard
Findings show that some improvements have been made on the inclusion of people with learning disabilities in policy conversations, but that there remains considerable work to be done to achieve meaningful inclusion. Particularly, that policy consultations… Read More