ExChange Wales brings leading researchers together with practitioners and service users to share expertise, research evidence and care experiences.
Through our conferences, workshops, lectures and seminars, ExChange provides free, high-quality training to support the ongoing development of social care professionals across Wales. Attracting leading national speakers, together we learn and advise on research, impacting both policy and practice. Our events and resources enrich skills while foregrounding the lived experience of care-experienced people.
We have a range of ways that you can work with ExChange. If you wish to host an ExChange workshop, webinar, podcast or blog, simply contact us.
Check out our latest conference
Reframing Adoption Conference
Welcome to our ExChange conference series entitled Reframing Adoption running from May- June 2023. We aim to shine a light on the often forgotten area of adoption and highlight some of the most…
Check your thinking: supporting anti-racist practice in children’s social care.
Presented by: Abyd Quinn-Aziz, Melissa Mendez and Sophie Hallett, Cardiff University. This session is aimed at practitioners, professionals and carers, and promotes resources that have been developed to support anti-racist-practice in children’s social care. In the webinar we explain the…
The Cardiff Christmas Dinner
Christmas can be a particularly tricky time of conflicting emotions for young people who have grown up in care. Our work across CASCADE has highlighted over many years some of the barriers that care-experienced people can face when leaving care.…
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice?
Webinar 14th December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Presenter: Dr Sara Long, DECIPHer Centre, Cardiff University New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice? At Cardiff and Swansea University we…
The young carer spectrum: Investigating the larger population to better understand and support those with problematic caring roles.
Presented by: Ed Janes (Cardiff University) Thirty years of research has studied the experiences of young carers, children who care for family members due to an illness or disability, and highlighted the often negative impacts on their health, education and…
New evidence on the education and health outcomes of children with social workers: What does it mean for policy and practice?
Webinar 14th December 2022, 13:00-14:00 Presenter: Dr Sara Long, DECIPHer Centre, Cardiff University At Cardiff and Swansea University we researched over 30,000 children in Wales to understand what happens over time to children who have help from social services. We…
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People & Homes Conference 2023
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Managing for the first time
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ADHD: An understanding for practitioners
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Supporting young people’s mental health and well-being
Please note: This event is being hosted externally and not through Exchange Wales. Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including…
