Complex interventions are generally described as containing several interacting components due to intersecting issues or complexity of need… Read More
‘Children: the invisible victims?’
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
My Interpretation on Strength Based Approaches in Adult Social Care as a Human and Social Sciences Student.
Zuzanna Oliwkiewicz My name is Zuzanna, I am currently studying human and social sciences at Cardiff University. I’ve had the opportunity to work with CASCADE over the past semester as a part of my placement journey. I’ve joined meetings, webinars, searched for venues and even got sucked into helping with the big move! As I… Read More
Why we need an Independent Review of children’s social care in Wales
Children’s social care in Wales is in crisis. There are similar problems across the whole of the UK, yet while Scotland, England and Northern Ireland are having independent reviews to explore radical new ways of doing things, in Wales we do not seem to think that is needed. Read More
When home is where the hurt is
Welcome to the ExChange Wales Summer Conference Series 2022. All resources related to the conference will be updated here… Read More
Reflections on online support for the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people
The strengths and challenges of online services and interventions to support the mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people. Read More
Understanding differences in care rates between local authorities
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 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. This perspective evolved from a shared determination to turn away from a policy and practice focus on ‘problems’, ‘deficits’, ‘the negative aspects of peoples and society’ (Weick et al 1989, p. 350), and their disempowering mark. Weick et al (1989) situate this perspective as an expression of social work’s values, and as challenge to rethink professional and institutional power which diminishes a person’s capacity to be the expert in their own lives… 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
