Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre
When families interact with children’s social services, what separates a good experience from a poor one? And how does the way social workers communicate with families affect their experience? These are questions that matters deeply to thousands of children and families across Wales and beyond – and now, for the first time, those who’ve lived… Read More
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
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 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
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
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
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. Read More
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
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
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
