Welcome to our truly international ExChange Wales spring conference series 2023! It takes a village: Global perspectives on care-experienced parents is being delivered in partnership with the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC). Care leavers’ transition to parenthood is one of the most challenging transitions in their life. Having limited support… Read More
The Cardiff Christmas Dinner
Christmas can be a particularly tricky time of conflicting emotions for young people who have grown up in care… Read More
Understanding the implementation of children’s social care policy in Wales: a study of the new Child Sexual Exploitation guidance.
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
Home Comforts: Getting it right in adult residential care
This forthcoming conference features live webinars, blogs, pre-recorded webinars and a range of resources aimed at sharing best practice in adult social care… Read More
This is Abuse: Young women’s experiences of sexual coercion
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
When everything is turned upside down at home: Children who lost a parent due to domestic homicide
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
Domestic abuse: Being in care and my personal journey
Project Unity is a NYAS Cymru project funded by Welsh Government… Read More
Evaluation of a whole family integrated domestic abuse (DA) programme
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