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Missed our latest ExChange Wales Podcast episode last week? 🎧 'Empowerment through Creativity: Maggie's Club' with Enireth & Alex is available to listen now! Listen: https://lnkd.in/e22cWmSz Hear from one of the parents about their child's experience with Maggie's Club 👇 #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued #SocialCare #UCANProductions #MaggiesClub

Resource spotlight - Co-production & Asset Based Approaches (Podcast) ✨ Hear from experts by experience & professionalism as they discuss the important of co-production from different unique experiences. Speakers: Sian Davies, Mencap Cymru Mark John Williams, Disability Transformation Nicholas, expert by experience 🎧 Listen: https://lnkd.in/eFevSEDy Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru Health and Care Research Wales Mencap Cymru #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued

I’m pleased to share our new paper published in BMC Public Health, which investigates health and educational outcomes for care-experienced young people. This collaborative effort involved Prof Graham Moore, Dr Rebecca Anthony, Dr Sara Jayne Long and others. A summary below of our important messages ⬇ Study Overview: We analysed national administrative health, social care, and education data in Wales, focusing on over 30,000 children through SAIL Databank. We categorised them into four groups based on their social care intervention experiences: 1. No social care intervention 2. Identified as in need 3. On the child protection register 4. 'Looked-after' children Key Findings: - Care-experienced young people are more likely to struggle academically and have higher rates of emergency hospital admissions. - Children on the protection register had the highest risk of not achieving expected educational outcomes (4 times more likely), followed by those in need (2.5 times) and looked-after children (76% higher odds). - All groups with social care involvement showed increased likelihood of hospital admissions, including external causes and injuries. Implications: These results highlight the need for stakeholders to support all children involved in social care—not just those in out-of-home placements. The data also suggests that adverse childhood experiences, such as living with someone with mental health or alcohol problems, is associated with outcomes. This research was supported by ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council and involved collaboration across several institutions, including Swansea University, Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd, Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, DECIPHerCentre, Cardiff Metropolitan University, University of Aberdeen, and Public Health Wales. For more details, check out the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gVYqbRn3. Or, if you want a quicker summary with some fancy animation see here: https://t.co/mvs8Miwj0t #Academia #Research #ChildreninCare

🚨New Podcast episode: 'Empowerment through Creativity' out now! 🎧 Alyson Rees chats with Enireth & Alex about their experience developing 'Maggie's Club' for children with visual impairments & additional disabilities and about how children have benefitted from the monthly creativity workshops. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/e22cWmSz Health and Care Research Wales Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued #UCANProductions

Resource Spotlight - Maggie's Club at UCAN Productions ✨ Maggie's Club is a once-a-month creativity workshop for children with visual impairments & additional disabilities. Find out more on their website about how to get involved: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCcjUVgu Keep an eye out *tomorrow* for our podcast with Enireth and Alex from UCAN, where they discuss Maggie's Club and share testimonials from parents about the impactful workshops! 🎧 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebhwV9Dm #BeingSeen Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru

Missed out on attending our webinar last week? "What About Me? People with learning disabilities living on the edges of support: what is it like, and what needs to change?" is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel! ✨ 📺 https://lnkd.in/eywFNtVY #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued Health and Care Research Wales Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru

Keep an eye out for our new podcast episode: 'Empowerment through Creativity' on Thursday! 🎧 Alyson Rees chats with Enireth & Alex about their experience developing 'Maggie's Club' for children with visual impairments & additional disabilities and about how children have benefitted from the monthly creativity workshops. Health and Care Research Wales Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued #UCANProductions #MaggiesClub

ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council funding awarded to transform data collections for child welfare research. We're excited to be part of a collaborative team of researchers led by Population Data Science at Swansea University. A new project has been awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to investigate the feasibility of a new longitudinal birth cohort study focusing on children at risk of poor outcomes.   Millions of children in the UK experience adversity early in life, impacting their long-term health and development. Despite their significant numbers, these children are generally absent from the UK's world-leading portfolio of national longitudinal child development studies. This year-long project aims to address this critical gap by exploring the potential for a new study that will provide vital insights into the challenges faced by these young people. 

Join today for our webinar, “The voice of young people with learning disabilities and autism in supported employment: Engage to Change and building partnerships to promote what works.” 📅 Date: October 21st, 1-2pm 🔊 Speakers: Andrea Meek, Dr. Elisa Vigna, and Gerraint Jones-Griffiths 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eYGRcqfy #BeSeenHeardValued #BeingSeen #LearningDisabilities #ExChangeWales Health and Care Research Wales Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru

Resource Spotlight - 'My Life, My Choice - The right to a relationship' ✨ In this 2021 ExChange Wales seminar, self-advocacy group MLMC presented their research on the barriers people with learning difficulties face in sustaining relationships. This was part of our Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning (DRILL) series. 📽️Watch here:  https://lnkd.in/e5YN3J4P Find out more about our 'Being Seen, Heard and Valued' conference: https://lnkd.in/dMCKTbVF #BeingSeen #BeingSeenHeardandValued #SocialCareWales #ResearchWales Learning Disability Wales | Anabledd Dysgu Cymru Health and Care Research Wales