Family and Community

  • Primary school children with Special Guardianship Orders.

    Educational needs of primary school children with Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) This blog is written by Lorna Stabler and Daisy Chaudhuri. Lorna is a research fellow at CASCADE (Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre) and is leading a new study focusing on Special Guardianship. Daisy is a consultant on this new study. She brings… Read More
  • The RESPECT billboard: envisaging a future without racism for children

    The RESPECT Project (Racialised Experiences Project: Education, Children & Trust) has been funded by both UKRI and UWE, Bristol, and responds to calls to understand children’s racialised experiences and the impact this has on their mental health and wellbeing. Working with children, we co-produced a children’s picture book called If Racism Vanished for a Day…… Read More
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    Removing the “Reasonable Punishment” Defence in Wales

    A paper written by Professor Sally Holland, former Children’s Commissioner for Wales traces the history of attempted legislation around corporal punishment of children from the A v UK (Council of Europe 1998) case to the present day. The paper reflects on the challenges of getting said Act passed, outlining how Julie Morgan MP for Cardiff… Read More
  • Child Protection Practice in England: working with non-resident fathers

    Research studies have consistently found a lack of engagement between social workers and fathers in child protection practice, which has often resulted in missed opportunities for fathers to be assessed as either a risk to, or a resource for their children. One reason that fathers are not considered is because mothers are often constructed as… Read More
  • “They Finally See Me, They Trust Me, My Brother’s Coming Home”

    There is an increased understanding of the role of kinship care in raising children where their parents cannot. A lot of the media stories and current research talk about grandparents who step up and become the full-time carer for their grandchildren. However, kinship carers can be anyone who has a connection to a child – an aunt, a neighbour, a best friend’s family. They can also be the older brother or sister of the child needing an alternative carer.
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    Knowledge to Action Magazine – The Summer issue: Adventure

    KtoA help us discover inspirational stories and real-life experiences, access advice about current topics and find exciting cultural activities taking place. Find out wha is in this edition…
  • Children in a classroom
    Children’s Commissioner for Wales Super Ambassadors programme

    Super Ambassadors is a scheme from the Children’s Commissioner for Wales that aims to promote children’s rights and the UNCRC in schools…
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    Children’s Commissioner for Wales Community Ambassadors programme

    This a Children’s Vomissioner for Wales programme where children and young people can get involved and volunteer as members of their local community group or special interest group…
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    Hate speech and children’s rights podcast

    This podcast series from UNICEF discusses hate speech and its impact on children’s rights…
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    New website – Children’s Participation in Schools 

    The Children’s Participation in Schools Team has launched a website that offers information about the Children’s Participation in Schools project, which primary aim is to explore and examine teaching practices that embed young children’s participative rights in classrooms and schools…