A5065158550- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Family Support in Illness
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Social Sciences and Governance
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Q Methodology Applications
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Research in Social Sciences
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
Cardiff University
2018-2025
Children’s social care researchers are increasingly drawing on realist evaluation to understand the complexity within their field by identifying underlying contexts and mechanisms that lead outcomes of interest. However, there few published worked examples evaluations interventions in children’s care. This makes it challenging how put this approach best use practice. To address gap, we share conducted a Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing, family-led decision-making process. In doing...
This paper draws on a qualitative interview-based study that explored online mental health and wellbeing interventions services for care-experienced young people. The involved people ( n = 4), foster carers 8), kinship 2) social care professionals 9) in Wales, UK. reflects the complexities of communication space ‘the home’. It documents ways which people’s living arrangements can restrict access to complicate confidentiality within portals virtual world, creating an environment where their...
Despite a widespread focus on grandparents, large proportion of kinship care in the UK is provided by older siblings. What drives siblings to become carers, and how this might differ from other not well represented academic literature. In study, narrative interviews were carried out with thirteen adults across England, Scotland, Wales who had experience being main carer for their younger sibling(s) when parents could them sufficiently. The method elicited holistic accounts participants...
Abstract Understanding how children experience social work interventions is an important part of gauging whether what provided genuinely helpful. In this paper, we describe the findings from a research project using Q‐method, aimed at understanding involved with statutory services think about their workers and they time spend together. Using pre‐existing practice framework, explored skills including empathy, collaboration, purposefulness point view young people. The participants in our study...
The COVID-19 pandemic, and associated lockdowns, saw numerous services move to online remote delivery. This included mental health wellbeing interventions for care-experienced young people. To date there has been limited consideration of how different stakeholders experienced the receipt or delivery provision during this period. We conducted one-to-one small group interviews with: people with experience care (n=3); a person whose biological parents were foster carers (n=1); kinship (n=10);...
Understanding how different forms of supervision support good social work practice and improve outcomes for people who use services is nearly impossible without reliable valid evaluative measures. Yet the question best to evaluate quality in contexts a complicated as-yet-unsolved challenge. In this study, we observed 12 supervisors simulated session offering guidance an actor playing part inexperienced worker facing casework-related crisis. A team researchers analyzed these sessions using...
Interventions that change family income include any policy or practice directly indirectly changes the amount of money a have. Although theory regarding relationship between poverty and child maltreatment is well established, theories how affects likelihood children being in out-of-home are not developed. This realist rapid evidence assessment provides an overview process interventions affect rate care. The study population families at risk their entering care whose pursuing reunification....
Family Group Conferencing is a family-led decision-making process used in children’s social care the UK. Unlike traditional meetings between families and professionals when there safeguarding concern, Conferences are often held outside services’ premises ‘neutral’ venue. In this article, we critique idea that meeting location can be neutral as spaces may experienced differently, hold multiple meanings, for family, their network who take part. Starting from premise relationships with space...
Introduction The increasing number of children and young people entering statutory care in the UK is a significant social, health educational priority. Development effective approaches to safely reduce this remains complex but critical issue. Despite proliferation interventions, evidence summaries are limited. present protocol outlines scoping review research identify what works reducing (aged ≤18 years) social care. mapping gaps, clusters uncertainties will inform programme newly funded...
Summary Meetings to enhance shared decision-making, such as family group conferences, potentially contribute enhancing meaningful involvement of families. Such meetings are also claimed by some reduce the need for children be in care, either increasing support from parents or identifying care within network. This rapid realist review aims develop an understanding how that facilitate decision-making between professionals and families might work safely care. It identifies mechanisms thought...
Purpose This paper presents findings from a project that aimed to support social work managers observe, evaluate and give feedback on practice skills. Design/methodology/approach An embedded team of researchers observed over 300 meetings between parents workers gave based an established research instrument facilitated quantitative coding individual skills such as empathy purposefulness. Then took this task sustain ongoing beyond the timescale project. Findings A tool was successfully...
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has Impact Factor 5.120 (2020 JCR, received June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published 2021.