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    Help us make a difference to Youth Work in Wales

    Youth Cymru is at the start of a new journey; much has changed over the last few months for all of us and as an organisation whose primary aim is to benefit the lives of young people we want to take action now to ensure the best outcomes for young people in Wales…
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    Co-SPACE study report findings: Changes in children’s mental health symptoms

    The latest report of the Co-SPACE study shows changes in children and young people’s mental health among the study sample up to and including January 2021. In the report, the focus is on the following mental health outcomes as measured by…
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    Walking Tall: Empowering children to share their views and be heard

    Walking Tall is a three-year project from the Fostering Network in Wales that began in 2020…
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    Thrive Magazine focuses on ‘healthy relationships’

    Last November, The Fostering Network in Wales, Young People’s Care Forum worked with Brook Charity to discuss and explore the importance of young people in foster care having healthy relationships with everyone around them…
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    Parent Talk Cymru

    This service provides support for parents in Wales and offers parenting articles and an opportunity to speak to the service via live chat in English or Welsh…
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    New book: The Children of Looked After Children

    A new book by Dr Louise Roberts, The Children of Looked After Children: Outcomes, Experiences and Ensuring Meaningful Support to Young Parents In and Leaving Care, provides some much-needed evidence about children born to young parents in and leaving care and explores the support available when young people become parents…
  • Community-based digital maternal and child health

    The Co-Designing Community-based ICTs Interventions for Maternal and Child Health in South Africa (CoMaCH) Network brings together researchers and practitioners from South Africa, the UK, and beyond…
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    Care experience & culture: a digital archive

    This new digital archive will be a one-stop accessible site with information about care-experienced characters in fiction and on-screen, as well as care-experienced writers, artists and actors…
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    Taking Hold of Our Heritage: the digital book

    This book project gave the narrative power back to care experienced young people so they can tell the stories they want heard about their lives. Care experienced young people are often required to talk about their traumatic past to professionals, support services…
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    Care review in England: wonder and rigour turn despair into hope

    The long awaited review into children’s social care has finally been launched and as might have been expected is already subject to “debate” as various stakeholders seek to ensure their views are listened to and heard…