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Improving the experiences of young homeless people in supported accommodation
This workshop reviews the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation…
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Practitioner Workshop: Decision-making in child and family social work; Can we learn to do it better?
This workshop provides a brief introduction to what we know about how social workers make decisions, followed by some practical exercises to test out and see what difference they might make…
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Purpose and agency in teaching
In February of 2015, the Welsh Government released Successful Futures, an “independent review of curriculum and assessment arrangements in Wales.” A number of recommendations were made in this report…
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Do educational outcomes for people with care experience get better over time?
Our recent paper examines the educational pathways of 18 care-experienced adults in Ireland…
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Collaboration, creativity and complexities: Conference blog
Though the potential of employing co-productive techniques with children and young people is increasingly recognised in research and practice, conferences focusing on academic and practice innovation in…
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#MessagestoSocialWorkers – A film created by care-experienced young people
We worked with a group of young people in care to create a film highlighting key messages that young people want to share with social workers…
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Lights, Camera, Action: Translating Research Findings into Policy and Practice Impacts with Music, Film and Artwork
This chapter, written with Louisa Roberts, Eleanor Staples and Ministry of Life, thinks about how to get the messages from research out to wide and diverse audiences….
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Factors that promote positive supervised birth family contact for children in care
This chapter, written with Dr Paul Rees, draws upon a study which considered the experiences and views of 165 key individuals involved in or experiencing supervised birth family contact at an identified contact centre within Wales.
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‘A Family of my Own’: When young people in and leaving state care become parents in Wales
This chapter considers early parenthood for young people in and leaving state care in Wales. Drawing on data from a five-year pan-Wales study, funded by Health and Care Research Wales…
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Positionality and Reflexivity: Conducting Qualitative Interviews with Parents who Adopt Children from Foster Care
Who we are matters. In research, when the interviewer meets their participants, both parties make judgements about each other which impact on what happens and what is said in the interview.
Welcome to ExChange Wales
Building better social care in Wales
