Building better social care in Wales
Presenter: Dr Edmund Coleman-Fountain, University of York, and self-advocates involved in this project Abstract This webinar will explore the “What About Me?” project. Funded by the NIHR (Research for Patient Benefit), the project investigates what it is like to be a person with learning disabilities who relies on unfunded support. The project has been co-produced… Read More
Presenter: Professor Katy Burch, Institute of Public Care Biography Professor Katy Burch is an assistant director at the Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University where she has been leading research into aspects of children’s social care across England and Wales for over 20 years. Abstract This webinar will explore findings from a major new… Read More
Presenters: Andrea Meek and Dr. Elisa Vigna, National Centre for Mental Health at Cardiff University and Gerraint Jones-Griffiths, Learning Disability Wales/ Honorary Associate at Cardiff University. Abstract This presentation will explore the importance of partnership working in Supported Employment, based on Engage to Change, a 7-year national project supporting young people aged 16-25 with a… Read More
Presenter: Dr Sarah MacDonald, Research Associate, DECIPHer Research Centre, Cardiff University. This presentation will include findings from ‘Wellbeing in Schools and Colleges (WiSC)’, an empirical research study in Wales, where the objective was to understand stakeholder experiences of delivering and receiving mental health and wellbeing provision for care-experienced children and young people (CYP) in secondary… Read More
Presenter: David Westlake, Co-Investigator, CASCADE at Cardiff University The Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot, launched in July 2022, is unique in several ways. No other basic income scheme has given regular payments as large as those received by young people involved in the pilot, nor have other basic income schemes been open… Read More
About the book Neglect is the most common reason for a child to be on a protection plan in the UK – in 2020, this amounted to over 27,000 children. Neglect is also present in around three-quarters of all case reviews into the death or serious harm of children. Research has found a clear intersection… Read More
Professor Donald Forrester Author and presenter: Donald Forrester is Professor of Child and Family Social Work and Director of CASCADE Centre for Children’s Social Care Research and Development at Cardiff University. In this webinar, Donald Forrester introduces his new book, which positions human rights as central social work practice. While social work theory tends to… Read More
Presenter: Dr Nina Maxwell, CASCADE, Cardiff University This session will provide an overview of our work on child criminal exploitation in Wales. It will begin with a brief introduction about how CASCADE became involved in this research and the importance of working with stakeholders from the research design stage to the co-production of research outputs.… Read More
Presenter: Professor Dawn Mannay, Cardiff University Abstract This presentation explores how creative and collaborative approaches can be drawn on as techniques of data production and tools of dissemination and impact. The focus of the presentation is a qualitative study into the educational experiences and aspirations of care experienced children and young people in Wales (n=67).… Read More
Tuesday 21st May 2024, 11 – 1pm Research studies about carers’ wellbeing over the last decade have highlighted the impact of caregiving on informal carers’ financial, physical and mental health. In this seminar hosted by the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE) at Cardiff University we focus on the implications for carers’ social wellbeing… Read More
