Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre
Overview The ‘When I Am Ready’ (WIAR) scheme was introduced in April 2016 under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, enabling young people leaving foster care to remain with their foster or kinship carers beyond the age of 18. The scheme responds to well-documented evidence that the abrupt transition to independent living at… Read More
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Wednesday March 15th is Young Carers Action Day 2023, an annual event that draws attention to the lives of children who care for a family member due to an illness or disability. Research has a key role in investigating the impacts of caring and informing what support could look like, but the issue of increasing prevalence estimates is challenging our understanding. Read More
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. Read More
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Co-developing a hub of mental health resources tried, tested and recommended by care-experienced young people for care-experienced young people. Read More
A mixed-methods, realist evaluation of the first Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales. Read More
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. Read More
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