Building better social care in Wales
Our recent paper (Stabler, Wilkins and Carro, 2019) uses a novel method (Q-method) to explore what children and young people ‘in need’, ‘in care’ and ‘leaving care’ think about their social workers and personal advisors – and what the worker does when they spend time together…. Read More
Why is there such a dichotomy in these two direct accounts from students with care experience? Read More
Are you ready for the ‘Are We Ready’ conference on 4th September? Join Voices From Care Cymru in Llandrindod Wells. Contact Jane@vfcc.org.uk or call 029 20451431 to register by 12th August. Please spread the word! Click here for more information.
On 21st June 2019 (Cardiff) and 26th June (Bangor) ExChange welcomed Natalie Roberts from Bangor University to deliver a workshop on the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation. Findings were presented from a project working with a North Wales based homeless charity, Digartref. Attendees included a wide array of professionals, many of whom… Read More
This workshop aimed to provide 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. The workshop was led by Dr David Wilkins and Dr Catherine Foster. The workshop began by exploring the importance of the decisions made by social… Read More
This workshop reviews the experiences of young homeless people living in supported accommodation… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Our recent paper examines the educational pathways of 18 care-experienced adults in Ireland… Read More
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… Read More
