Introducing the Research and Policy Kinship Carer Advisory Group – Your Chance to Make a Difference! Are you a special guardian, relative, or friend providing care for Welsh children who cannot live with their parents? As a Kinship Carer, your experience and insights are invaluable. That’s why we invite you to be a part of… Read More
The Cardiff Christmas Dinner 2023
Last year, a group of hosts in and around Cardiff, some from CASCADE, worked together to provide Christmas dinner and a celebration for care-experienced people. The team were filled with nerves ahead of the big day, with referrals still coming in up to the week before Christmas. A chef volunteered three days of their time… Read More
CASCADE Talks is now available on your favourite Podcast service!
Cascade are thrilled to announced that our podcast ‘Cascade Talks’ is now publicly available on streaming services. CASCADE Talks is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. Our podcasts have a variety of conversations with industry practitioners who speak about their journey into social work, the issues that they face and an ever-changing sector. Our researchers speak about… Read More
New report published on Schwartz Rounds being trialled in Social Care
Cascade are delighted to announce the publication of a report that Dr David Wilkins has been working on for 24 months. A Randomised Controlled Trial of Schwartz Rounds has been published by What Works for Children’s Social Care centre. This was investigated by working with eleven local authorities who were randomly allocated more than 2000… Read More
Registration for the Health and Care Research Wales conference on 14 October is open now!
The theme of this year’s event is learning and looking forward and after the success of last year’s event, it will again be an entirely digital day. There are some great plenary sessions lined up on important topics including: Health and care research: learning from the pandemic; Research, innovation and improvement and Recovery and learning: new ideas… Read More
New safeguarding resource for working with children and young people
Resources developed by Cardiff University research bringing together resources and materials created from research and partnership work with young people, as well as foster carers, and social care and allied professionals Read More
Social Care Wales ‘Padlet’ of wellbeing resources
A Padlet of Well-being resources developed by Social Care Wales Read More
ExChange Wales Well-Being Conference Series Launch Event: The Significance of ‘Well-Being’ to Welsh Social Care
Welcome to this launch event for the ExChange Wales summer conference series 2021 on Well-Being. Read More
Summer Conference Series
We are launching our Wellbeing conference with a range of events taking place over 3 weeks between 21 June – 13 July Read More
Spring Conference Launch
Today we launch our ExChange Wales Spring Conference Series: Reducing the need for children to be in care. Watch our Centre Director, Professor Donald Forrester opening the virtual conference series… Read More