This conference will bring together key stakeholders involved with student welfare and will look to establish the scale of the problem, discuss some of the causes, identify risk and seek potential solutions. The programme incorporates key presentations from speakers with both personal and professional experience, allocated time for questions and discussion, interactive engagement, and casual networking… Read More
Children and Young People’s Mental Health: Improving access to effective support
The 10th Children and Young People’s Mental Health conference will bring together key stakeholders, dedicated to improving young people’s lives, for a day of learning, conversation and networking… Read More
Health and Care Research Wales conference
Registration for the Health and Care Research Wales conference on 12 October in Swansea Arena is open now. This year’s event theme is People make research… Read More
Safeguarding Children: Delivering a more effective and robust system
This conference will bring together all stakeholders charged with safeguarding children and young people from harm and promoting their health and welfare in the UK… Read More
Working with Children who have Experienced Neglect
Neglect is the most common reason for a child to be on a child protection plan in the UK – in 2021 this amounted to over 27,000 children (NSPCC, 2022). Neglect has been found to be prevalent in three-quarters of child case reviews concerning the death or serious harm of children, and is experienced by… Read More
Supported Accommodation Under the RHWA
The RHWA has brought in major changes to the way that supported accommodation must now be managed. The introduction of supported standard contracts into supported accommodation, will result in greater security of tenure for anyone over the age of 18 once they have been living in supported housing for 6 months… Read More
RHWA for Support Workers
Support workers are very often the first people that individuals approach when they are in housing crisis. The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 has introduced a new language and system, which is important for anyone in the supporting sector to understand… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Hate speech and children’s rights podcast
This podcast series from UNICEF discusses hate speech and its impact on children’s rights… Read More