Building better social care in Wales
UNICEF UK and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development & Learning (PEDAL), have developed a resource to support local areas in a shared understanding of mental health in infancy and early childhood… Read More
Co-produced by a short-life working group, on behalf of the Infant Mental Health Implementation and Advisory Group, which is part of the Scottish Government’s Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board… Read More
Indicators for measuring progress in promoting the right of children and young people under the age of 18 to participate in matters of concern to them. By the Council of Europe Children’s Rights Division and Youth Department… Read More
The second report prepared by the Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group has launched. This is the second report prepared by the Wales UNCRC Monitoring Group, which is a civil society coalition facilitated by Children in Wales, to inform the 94th Session and the examination of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Read More
For adoptees, a persistent and enduring education attainment gap exists. Experiences of schooling are further impacted by wider contextual factors, such as the construction of a consistent and coherent adoption narrative. Adopted children are set apart from most of their peers in relation to their experience of early adversities, leading to an entirely different family… Read More
This report presents findings of the first wave of qualitative research with 64 senior leaders in schools and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) which examined schools’ early experiences of roll-out of Curriculum for Wales (CfW)… Read More
An adopted child’s identity will always encompass multiple elements and a child’s long term psychological and mental health depends on finding answers to fundamental questions about who they are. All children looked after will have a contact plan, including those to be adopted. This can be either direct/face-to-face or indirect (e.g., ‘letterbox’[1]). For many years… Read More
Early Permanence is a child-centred practice that offers stability at a very early stage, preventing multiple moves and the associated trauma of separation from and loss of attachment figures, until a court has reached a decision about the final care plan for a child. The need for good quality care planning for children and twin… Read More
For more than twenty years Shelter Cymru’s People & Homes conference has been a key national housing event in Wales. This year they are going bigger and better than ever before, hosting Wales’s biggest conference on homelessness. This will be their first ever hybrid event, enabling them to reach more people and share more learning from across Wales and further afield… Read More
Despite ongoing efforts to bridge the gap between care-experienced young people and their peers, there is still much that we do not know about the factors that contribute to these inequalities. This research aims to develop a better understanding of how policies and support structures can be effectively developed to address the specific needs of care-experienced young people… Read More
