Browse our collection of recent blog articles and news items, providing a variety of materials for researchers, practitioners, and the public.
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Article review – Child protection social work in COVID-19: Home visits and digital intimacy
Social work is a public service, but social workers very often do their work in private (Bostock et al, 2018). In much of his most important research to date…
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Practitioners needed on research project about child exploitation
A research team from CASCADE are conducting a Health Care Research Wales funded research project in partnership with Barnardo’s aimed at developing a toolkit that enhances service and community responses to young people at risk or involved in child criminal exploitation…
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Article reviews
In Article Reviews, academics from CASCADE will identify an important recent article, summarise its findings and provide some critical thinking about the research and its implications…
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Article review: What the Public Think About Social Services, A Report from Scotland
In relation to social services, there is often expressed the view among social workers that, by and large, the public dislike them – or at least, they dislike the services they represent. But how accurate is this view?
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Volunteers needed for studies on social worker decision-making
Researchers at CASCADE are currently conducting two research studies related to social worker decision-making and are seeking social workers to take part…
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Developing child-focused local family alliances in Wales
The Child Arrangements Programme (CAP) was designed to divert low risk disputes between separated parents away from courts and promote the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution. Despite an initial decline in the number of applicants in 2014…
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Children’s social services and care rates in Wales survey
Do you work in children’s social care in Wales? If so you are invited to complete a short survey on children’s social care, with the opportunity to win £250 per local authority for a charity of your choice…
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Research project spotlight #5: The SWIS trial: An evaluation of school-based social work
A randomised controlled trial of an intervention which puts social workers into secondary schools across 21 English Local Authorities…
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Research project spotlight #4: Supporting children looked after in the youth justice system
Children looked after who have come into contact with the law are some of the most vulnerable members of society…
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Research project spotlight #3: Welsh community response to child criminal exploitation
Much of what is known about CCE relates to county lines, a model of drug supply that has become widespread across the United Kingdom. County lines operate using a dedicated mobile phone number to sell drugs from larger cities to end users living…