Family & Community external events listings are posted to inform the wider community about external events including workshops, opportunities for families, children and young people, and helpful resources.

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    Racially minoritised young people’s experiences of navigating COVID-19 challenges

    This study used a community cultural wealth perspective to surface the specificities that can enable or impede resilience for racially minoritised young people facing risks and challenges that are rooted in racial disparities and compounded by intersectional forms of inequalities…
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    Supporting student mental health-improving outcomes and achievements

    This conference will bring together key stakeholders involved with student welfare and will look to establish the scale of the problem, discuss some of the causes, identify risk and seek potential solutions. The programme incorporates key presentations from speakers with both personal and professional experience, allocated time for questions and discussion, interactive engagement, and casual networking…
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    Children and Young People’s Mental Health: Improving access to effective support

    The 10th Children and Young People’s Mental Health conference will bring together key stakeholders, dedicated to improving young people’s lives, for a day of learning, conversation and networking…
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    Understanding care pathways and placement stability for infants in Wales

    This presentation provides new empirical evidence about entry routes to care, pathways through care, and placement outcomes for the very youngest children in the care system in Wales. By addressing questions about voluntary and compulsory routes into care, it speaks directly to questions raised in the final report from the Public Law Working Group (2021), established by the President of the Family Division, regarding trends in the use of voluntary accommodation for babies…
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    Health and Care Research Wales conference

    Registration for the Health and Care Research Wales conference on 12 October in Swansea Arena is open now. This year’s event theme is People make research…
  • Safeguarding Children: Delivering a more effective and robust system

    This conference will bring together all stakeholders charged with safeguarding children and young people from harm and promoting their health and welfare in the UK…
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    Supported Accommodation Under the RHWA

    The RHWA has brought in major changes to the way that supported accommodation must now be managed. The introduction of supported standard contracts into supported accommodation, will result in greater security of tenure for anyone over the age of 18 once they have been living in supported housing for 6 months…
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    RHWA for Support Workers

    Support workers are very often the first people that individuals approach when they are in housing crisis. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 has introduced a new language and system, which is important for anyone in the supporting sector to understand…
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    Dance workshops by Born to Perform

    Born to Perform is an inclusive performing arts service for children and adults with SEND and they will be delivering their popular dance workshops soon…
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    Fitness for Human Habitation

    For too long, many renters in Wales have had a raw deal when it comes to their living conditions. From fears of reporting repairs, landlord failure to act on repairs, retaliatory evictions and the complexity involved in challenging disrepair, we often see people living in accommodation which is far below the reasonable standards anyone should expect in the modern world…