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Welcome to Cascade
CASCADE's aim is to improve the well-being,
safety and rights of children and their families.
We are concerned with all aspects of community responses to social need in children and families,
including family support services, children in need services, child protection, looked after children and
adoption.
What we do
Generate internationally recognised primary research evidence.
Make our research accessible to all; including people who use services, professionals and policy
makers.
Develop social care research capacity in Wales by providing opportunities for researchers from
undergraduate through to senior career stages.
Engage a range of collaborators in research, including children and young people, parents and
carers, practitioners, policymakers and social care providers from the public, private and third
sectors.
How we do it
The only centre of its kind in Wales - promoting evidence, improving outcomes.
A diverse range of research methods - Ethnography, interviews and focus groups, cohort and
routine data sets, quasi-experiments, randomised controlled trials and reviews (rapid, systematic
and realist).
Strong links with policy and practice - Parents and children, social workers and senior
managers, government (Welsh and UK) and the third sector.
Grant funding from a range of sources - research councils, government and the third sector.
To read more visit: CASCADE - Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre
Practice Links University of Cork
Practice Links is a free @UCCsocialwork e-publication for practitioners working in Irish
social services, voluntary, community and non-governmental sectors. Practice Links
supports practitioners to keep up-to-date with new publications, electronic
publications, conferences, social media, apps, and continuing professional
development opportunities. Practice Links is published every other month and distributed by email on the
Practice Links and CORA websites. Practice Links is a publication of the School of Applied Social
Studies, University College Cork, William Thompson House, Donovan's Road, Cork, Ireland.
To subscribe to the Practice Links email distribution list, whereby you will automatically receive each
edition, click on this link and press the Join or Leave PL-L button. Follow the same process to
unsubscribe from the list. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates on events and publications -
@PracticeLinks/https://twitter.com/PracticeLinks
Practice Links was founded by Kenneth Burns, @UCCsocialwork, Master of Social Work (MSW) in 2002.
The Practice Links Team is comprised of academics and practitioners: Dr Kenneth Burns, Kerry Cuskelly,
Dr Eavan Brady, Dr Robert O'Driscoll, Louise McCormick and Vivian Gerian. Practice Links is edited
by Kenneth Burns. ISSN 2009-776X.
Click here for most recent edition Practice Links April 2022