Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) Partnership

Health and Care Research Wales funds the CASCADE Partnership which is led by Professor Donald Forrester, Director of CASCADE

The partnership is made up of:

Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Centre for Trials Research
School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank

CASCADE aims 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 CASCADE does:

Generate internationally recognised primary research evidence
Make our research accessible to all; including service users, professionals and policymakers.
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.

People and community links:

Professor Donald Forrester - Director CASCADE and Senior Research Leader

Professor Jonathan Scourfield - Senior Research Leader and Joint Specialty Lead for Social Care

Dr Nina Maxwell - Joint Specialty Lead for Social Care

Dr Hannah Bayfield - Research associate

Dr Philip Smith - Research associate

In the news:

Health and Care Research Wales sets out ambitions in new three-year plan (August 2023)

Child criminal exploitation “toolkit” brings services together to protect children in Wales (February 2023)

Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)

2021 – A year filled with life-changing research in Wales (March 2022)

Life-changing research improving the lives of Welsh children and young people (December 2021)