Family and Community

  • Alternative Education and Care Experienced Young People

    For young people who have experienced care, navigating education can be particularly challenging. They are more likely than their peers to experience difficulties with attainment, school attendance and exclusion. But what happens when these experiences lead young people away from mainstream education and into alternative provision?
  • Exploring Ethnic Inequalities in Children’s Social Care

    Children from different ethnic backgrounds can have very different experiences of children’s social care. There are important variations between ethnic groups, raising questions about how children and families are referred to services, assessed and supported, and about the role that culture, poverty, professional knowledge and decision-making may play.
  • Growing Roots: Sharing the Research Ethics Tree

    The Research Ethics Tree is a tool that was created to more meaningfully engage children and young people in conversations about research ethics and support the informed and ongoing consent process.
  • Supporting Families to Stay Together

    The Step Up Step Down programme supports families on the edge of care, with the aim being to reduce the number of children coming into care and to support the bonds and capacities of families.
  • Care experienced students’ views on graduating 

    For many, university is a time of intellectual growth and development, a time when new friendships are made and support systems established. But leaving university can signal the abrupt end of many forms of support, evoking considerable anxiety for many care experienced students, especially related to finding accommodation and employment.
  • In Care and Incredible

    The children’s book ‘In Care and Incredible: 30 Care Experienced Superstars You Need to Meet’, written by Dr Rosie Canning and Dr Dee Michell and illustrated by Lauren Fernandes, will be published on 26 July 20026.
  • The Cardiff Christmas Dinner 2025

    For the fourth year in a row, young people across South Wales who would otherwise spend Christmas Day alone will be warmly welcomed to a fabulous festive celebration — The Cardiff Christmas Dinner.
  • Everyday Parenting with Care Experience

    Our study aims to understand the everyday experiences of UK parents with a background of care, in order to highlight positive parenting practices and celebrate parenting achievements.  
  • Building Connection: Using Minecraft in Counselling and Social Work

    Social worker and counsellor Ellie Finch shares how she uses Minecraft as a therapeutic tool with children and families, creating accessible, creative and inclusive spaces for emotional expression and connection.
  • “My Care Journey” publication is finally here!

    We are delighted to announce the launch of My Care Journey, a publication curated and created entirely by care experienced young people, giving the reader a unique insight into life in the care system.