Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre
Following the death of Logan Mwangi, there have been calls for Wales to follow other UK nations and conduct an independent inquiry into children’s social care. This week, Deputy Director of CASCADE Jonathon Scourfield spoke to BBC Radio Wales about the rarity of cases like Logan Mwangi, adding that this may not be the right… Read More
The mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people is a major public concern. This has been further exacerbated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic and wider concerns about the diminished availability of mental health support services. A project led by DECIPHer’s Dr Rhiannon Evans in partnership with CASCADE and The Fostering Network Wales… Read More
The CUBE is an innovative, community led and co-produced support centre and coffee shop in the seaside town of Barry. Its focus is to use a restorative approach to engage with and empower the local community, particularly struggling families. It hosts many support sessions and activities for children and families, men and women as well… Read More
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… Read More
Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences and School of Psychology, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership for Wales (Wales DTP), invites applications for PhD study with the possibility of being awarded a fully-funded ESRC DTP Studentship, to start in October 2022 in the area of social work and social care. Applications welcomed… Read More
Our new report evaluates The Restorative Approaches Veterans and Family Service (RAVFS)… Read More
Cascade are thrilled to announced that our podcast ‘Cascade Talks’ is now publicly available on streaming services. CASCADE Talks is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music. Our podcasts have a variety of conversations with industry practitioners who speak about their journey into social work, the issues that they face and an ever-changing sector.… Read More
CASCADE’s award-winning care experienced young people’s research advisory group CASCADE Voices, run in partnership with Voices from Care Cymru has been hard at work virtually during the pandemic. While we were all finding the best ways to manage during a pandemic our dedicated young people have continued to get involved in our group and we couldn’t be more… Read More
Written by Jonathan Scourfield, Deputy Director of the Centre As we are a research and development centre for children’s social care, safeguarding has of course always been a key priority for CASCADE. With this being National Safeguarding Week, I’d like to highlight some of our work on this theme. We aim to do research with… Read More
There is limited research on child criminal exploitation with far less known about how this manifests in Wales. This Health Care Research Wales funded study addressed this research gap. The study examined how children are targeted, groomed, and criminally exploited in Wales. It also assessed what different services need to effectively identify, engage, and safeguard these children by exploring approaches and interventions most effective in the identification and… Read More
