Recent developments in children’s social care law and policy relating to Wales

Dr. Julie Doughty is the Deputy Director of Cardiff Law School’s Centre for Health and Social Care Research.  Julie has developed the Children’s Social Care Law in Wales website and…

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Direct Payments: Policy, Practice and Innovation Conference

A [pdf] copy of the PowerPoint Luke used at the Disability Wales Conference concerning Direct Payments: Policy, Practice and Innovation held at Cefn Lea, Newtown on the 20th July can…

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Welsh Independent Living Grant ~ update

The Welsh Government have published an update note concerning the WILG which can be accessed by clicking here.  An analysis of the situation will be posted on the 'Rhydian news'…

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Transparency in the Family Courts: Publicity and Privacy in Practice

For details of a new publication from Dr Julie Doughty (Cardiff Law School), Lucy Reed and Paul Magrath click here.  

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BASW Cymru membership survey on the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014

Following its annual conference in June 2017 – The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 – One Year On , BASW Cymru ran a survey to gather the views…

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Support needs of newly formed adoptive families

Sarah Meakins from Cardiff University and her colleagues have recently published a paper in Adoption and Fostering on findings from the Wales Adoption Study.  This paper will be of particular…

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