Understanding the Subjective Well-Being of Younger Children Looked After in Wales: A Qualitative Study Designed with Children in Care using Creative Methodologies Read More
Talk to Someone Now
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Innovation project
Welcome to [name of hub]! On this website, you will find links to mental health and wellbeing services that have been collated and tested by care-experienced young people, for care-experienced young people. Using the resource pages below, you will be able to find different forms of support, depending on your needs, all of which have… Read More
Pioneer Panel Discussion
’You are a true Pioneer,’ is a compliment received by a foster carer during a recent panel discussion that took place at SPARK. At this event, a research team from Cardiff University’s CASCADE partnered with The Fostering Network to launch the evaluation of The Fostering Wellbeing Programme. To reflect on the position of the Pioneer, eight experienced foster carers formed a panel to share their views on their pioneering roles. Read More
Research — CY
CASCADE’s portfolio of current research. These projects are ongoing and are in in various stages of development… Read More
Reach for the stars: Care experienced role models
As part of our CASCADE Parents group and network we have offered the opportunity for members to contribute to blogs if they would like to. These will be stories, messages, or priorities for research from their perspective. We hope this will be a regular blog feature at CASCADE and another way for us to amplify the voices of those with lived experience of children’s social care. Read More
Public Involvement Board
At CASCADE we are committed to involving people with lived experience of children and families social care in our research. This includes children & young people, parents and carers. In 2021 we took the decision to set up an Involvement Board to steer and support our work. This board sits alongside our centre management and… Read More
Parent Network
In December 2020, with Support from our CASCADE Involvement Board and Health and Care Research Wales infrastructure funding, we began building a Parent’s Research Advisory Group. This group has proved invaluable in helping to direct, translate and disseminate research done at CASCADE. Their experience of children’s social care as parents, and commitment to the group… Read More
Cascade Voices
Who we are CASCADE Voices is run in collaboration with Voices From Care Cymru. The group is a research advisory group for care experienced young people. The group develops ideas for research, supports the design of research methods and the dissemination of findings. The group has previously advised researchers from universities in Wales and Northern… Read More
Administrative Social Care Data
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