CASCADE’s Completed research projects:

Evaluation of ‘Together a Chance’

Evaluation of ‘Together a Chance’

Does embedding a social worker in prison to support mothers make a difference? Overview This research project evaluated ‘Together a Chance’, a three-year pilot scheme placing a Social Worker in…

Parental risk factors and children entering care

Parental risk factors and children entering care

Children in households with substance misuse, domestic violence or mental health problems: Who is at risk of entering care? A study looking at the relationship between risk factors in adults…

Making sense of the SWIS Trial: Implications for Wales

Making sense of the SWIS Trial: Implications for Wales

This project will introduce the findings of the Social Workers in Schools (SWIS) Trial, to Welsh stakeholders with a view to developing SWIS for implementation in Wales. Overview The Social…

Next steps for the Caring Lives study of the young carer spectrum

Next steps for the Caring Lives study of the young carer spectrum

One-year fellowship to disseminate and increase the impacts of a PhD study, Caring Lives, that investigated how the impacts of caring vary for children depending on their caring and family…

Social work fast track programmes: tracking retention and progression

Social work fast track programmes: tracking retention and progression

What happens to the graduates of fast-track child and family social work programmes in the world of practice – do they stay? what are their working conditions? do they get…

The perceived impact of peer parental advocacy impact on child protection practice: A pilot evaluation

The perceived impact of peer parental advocacy impact on child protection practice: A pilot evaluation

Peer Parental Advocacy aims to support parents who are engaged with the child protection process, through advice and advocacy. Part of this is helping them play a meaningful role in…

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