For those of you who don’t like a long read, the short answer is that nobody actually knows for sure, but that it looks somewhere between unlikely and very unlikely… Read More
Birthday cakes, rockets and washing machines: How Fuzzy logic can empower young people
Imagine you gathered a group of people together and gave them the ingredients and instructions to bake a cake. If they followed the instructions eventually, they should all be able to bake a cake… Read More
“We talk issues and have ‘bants'” : What do children and young people think about their social worker?
Our recent paper (Stabler, Wilkins and Carro, 2019) uses a novel method (Q-method) to explore what children and young people ‘in need’, ‘in care’ and ‘leaving care’ think about their social workers and personal advisors – and what the worker does when they spend time together…. Read More
How can it be that ‘being a student with care experience is very daunting’ and ‘…..supportive, inclusive, diverse and fun… a joy actually’?
Why is there such a dichotomy in these two direct accounts from students with care experience? Read More
Improving the experiences of young homeless people in supported accommodation
This workshop reviews the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation… Read More
Practitioner Workshop: Decision-making in child and family social work; Can we learn to do it better?
This workshop provides a brief introduction to what we know about how social workers make decisions, followed by some practical exercises to test out and see what difference they might make… Read More
Purpose and agency in teaching
In February of 2015, the Welsh Government released Successful Futures, an “independent review of curriculum and assessment arrangements in Wales.” A number of recommendations were made in this report… Read More
Do educational outcomes for people with care experience get better over time?
Our recent paper examines the educational pathways of 18 care-experienced adults in Ireland… Read More
Collaboration, creativity and complexities: Conference blog
Though the potential of employing co-productive techniques with children and young people is increasingly recognised in research and practice, conferences focusing on academic and practice innovation in… Read More
#MessagestoSocialWorkers – A film created by care-experienced young people
We worked with a group of young people in care to create a film highlighting key messages that young people want to share with social workers… Read More
