Browse our collection of recent CASCADE updates and news items, providing a variety of materials for researchers, practitioners, and the public.

  • From Wales to Australia: A Shared Vision for Care Leavers

    When we were invited to Melbourne to share the Best Practice Charter to Support Parents in Leaving Care, we never imagined we’d actually be able to go, let alone receive such a warm welcome once we arrived. Thanks to successful funding from Cardiff University’s H-IAA Follow-on Fund*, our trip became a reality. We were invited and… Read More
  • Colourful map of Europe with a small toy car placed on it
    CASCADE joins major new European project on child maltreatment services

    CASCADE is proud to be part of a major new Horizon Europe project Serena, which brings together researchers from 12 countries to improve access to care for children affected by abuse and neglect. Led by Professor Catherine Quantin and coordinated by INSERM (France), the €6.3 million project will assess how services across Europe respond to… Read More
  • CASCADE Researcher Appointed Specialty Lead for Social Care at Health and Care Research Wales

    CASCADE is proud to announce that Lorna Stabler, an experienced social care researcher at Cardiff University, has been appointed as the Specialty Lead for Social Care and Residential Care in Health and Care Research Wales. This prestigious role involves providing strategic support and championing research delivery within Wales. Health and Care Research Wales is recruiting… Read More
  • Parents’ Group Publishes Groundbreaking Article in British Journal of Social Work

    We’re excited to share that an article co-written by members of CASCADE’s parents’ group has been published in the British Journal of Social Work. Titled “Critical Reflections on Public Involvement in Research: Involving Involuntary Recipients of Social Services to Improve Research Quality”, the article explores what meaningful involvement looks like when working with parents who have… Read More
  • Health and Care Research funding awards

    Cardiff University researchers have been successful in the latest round of Health and Care Research Wales funding awards. The recipients of Health and Care Research Wales’ personal and project funding awards were announced on 1 April 2025. Personal award funding has been conferred to researchers from across Wales, including five Advancing Researcher awards, two Personal… Read More
  • Hot Chicks review – a powerful tale of exploitation and lost innocence 

    This is a hard hitting play about child criminal exploitation, in which writer Rebecca Jade Hammond has cleverly demonstrated the chilling charms of the groomer and the trap that the children fall into.  The audience is helpless and harrowed as the story unfolds and Ruby and Kyla become pawns under Sadie’s compelling and often brutal rule.
  • Health Care Research Wales fund new Centre to study and improve the use of AI in adult and child social work.

    Stuart Allen, Professor of Informatics and Director of SCALE says: “I am really excited to be able to apply the expertise of the School of Computer Science to improving social care for adults and children. Our initial Welsh Summit on the topic generated many ideas for projects that could make a positive difference and I… Read More
  • Senedd committee cites CASCADE’s Complex Safeguarding Wales Resources

    In a significant move to bolster the fight against child criminal exploitation, a Senedd committee has recommended the use of resources developed by CASCADE, this comes as part of the government’s broader strategy to enhance the safeguarding of vulnerable children across Wales. The recommendation is detailed in the recent report by the Senedd’s Children, Young… Read More
  • Congratulations to our new Professors – Clive Diaz and David Wilkins

    David Wilkins has been with CASCADE and the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University since 2018, where he joined as a Senior Lecturer and progressed to Reader. He has been promoted to Professor of Social Work and we are delighted he is staying with us here in Cardiff. In David’s early years with CASCADE,… Read More
  • CASCADE Researcher Verity Bennett presents at EUROCRIM 2024 on SOCEIS Evaluation

    EUROCRIM 2024 this year is being held at Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest and brings together researchers across Europe to share findings from research projects that contribute to the development of criminology across the globe. The conference is an excellent opportunity for researchers to meet, network and discuss their mutual research interests. Verity Bennett… Read More