Research — CY

CASCADE's Current research projects:

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  Understanding how advocacy services support care-experienced young people to participate in decision-making.

  Research suggests that involving young people in decision-making can boost their confidence and self-worth. But despite legal provisions, they often lack meaningful opportunities to participate in care-planning meetings. The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care recommends investing in advocacy services to empower young people and address power imbalances. However, more research is needed to understand the impact of advocacy services on care-experienced youth.

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  Child Well-Being Study

  Understanding the Subjective Well-Being of Younger Children Looked After in Wales: A Qualitative Study Designed with Children in Care using Creative Methodologies

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  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 circumstances.

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  Wellbeing in Schools and Colleges – the WiSC Study

  This study explores mental health and wellbeing support for care-experienced children and young people at secondary schools and further education colleges in Wales, and will make recommendations for how support can be improved.

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  What are the service outcomes for criminally exploited children?

  This project will examine the referral routes, service approaches, interventions and education, health, social care and offending outcomes for criminally exploited children in two local authorities.

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  A mixed-methods evaluation of parental advocacy in Wales

  Wales currently has the highest proportion of children in care among UK nations, and it is a policy priority of the Welsh government to reduce the number of children in care. The potential for parental advocacy (PA) services to help achieve this aim is increasingly being recognised, and the Welsh Government is funding several PA services across Wales.

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  The Welsh Basic Income Evaluation

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  For young people from young people

  Co-developing a hub of mental health resources tried, tested and recommended by care-experienced young people for care-experienced young people.

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  Evaluation of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales pilot

  A mixed-methods, realist evaluation of the first Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales.

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  Social care research capacity building programme

  Capacity to undertake academic research on both adult and children’s social care is under-developed and fragile both here in Wales and across the UK more widely.