ExChange Wales: Social care training & resource

As CASCADE closes out their #GoodCommunicationMatters season, we chatted with Donald Forrester about effective communication in social work through the practice of Motivational Interviewing. It combines empathy, collaboration and skilled communication with the realities of statutory child and family social work.

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In this episode, Robert Lomax discusses his work on exploring Bourdieu's theories of 'Habitus', 'Field' and 'Capital' within in multi-disciplinary social work settings.

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Rosie Canning, author of 'Hiraeth' discusses her new book 'In Care and Incredible', her own life experience of growing up in care, and her mission to de-stigmatise care experience in literature. 

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This is the second podcast in our summer conference on Informal Carers. In this episode we chat with CASCADE Researcher Lorna Stabler and Rose, an informal carer, about the experiences of Informal Kinship Care of children and young people. 

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In this episode we hear from Sarah Donnelly as she discusses her work on unintentional ‘carer harm’ in Ireland.

You can read the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/55/4/1695/7979369

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Martin Elliott sits down with three members of the CASCADE Parents Group in this episode. They discuss the importance of including Public Involvement within Social Care Research, highlighting the expertise and voices of those with lived experience, and how to support members of your public involvement groups throughout the research process and afterwards. 

Critical reflections on public involvement in research: Involving involuntary recipients of social services to improve research quality | The British Journal of Social Work | Oxford Academic: 

https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/55/5/2500/8099914

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In this episode, Martin discusses the involvement and overrepresentation of parents with learning disabilities with children's services with Beth Tarleton and Danielle Turney. 

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For our spring conference on Adult Safeguarding, Sarah Lonbay joins us to talk about her research on identifying and responding to domestic abuse in older populations, the key challenges and complexities. 

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Jeremy Dixon interviews Renée Aleong about her research on the detention of Black people - and the overrepresentation of Black Men - under the Mental Health Act, as well as sharing the opinions and anecdotes of AMHPS (Approved Mental Health Professionals) involved within these processes.

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Angela Endicott discusses her research exploring the epistemic injustice around child welfare practice with parents who use substances. 

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