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What is ASCC? ASCC is a partnership between Bangor, Cardiff & Swansea Universities. ASCC seeks to: Work closely with social care policy-makers & practice organisations to establish effective approaches to increasing the quantity & quality of social care R&D in Wales.
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What is ASCC? • ASCC is a partnership between Bangor, Cardiff & Swansea Universities. • ASCC seeks to: • Work closely with social care policy-makers & practice organisations to establish effective approaches to increasing the quantity & quality of social care R&D in Wales. • Enhance research capacity & skills in the social care workforce. • Promote the up-take of research evidence into social care practice. • Three regional teams are piloting & evaluating three distinct Social Care R&D capacity-building projects. • ASCC Academy.
ASCC North Wales • Partnership with the Wales Council for Voluntary Action. • Seeks to build social care R&D capacity within the third sector both nationally, regionally & locally. • Focuses on the development of quantitative skills to inform mixed methods research. • Builds on existing work to identify & exploit national datasets to inform the planning & delivery of social care services. • Work is underway to: • Establish national networks to take forward research on the experiences & support needs of individuals abused during childhood, as well as related work on safeguarding. • Strengthen existing networks to take forward research about carers.
ASCC Cardiff University • Led by WISERD, Cardiff University, and linking with the Social Services Improvement Agency (SSIA). • Project will develop a capacity building curriculum for staff working in the social care sector. Will work with social care employers and stakeholders to explore opportunities to develop research-based activities within the sector; and it will evaluate the research training necessary to support these aims. • Team will develop a ‘blended learning’ approach (a mixture of e-learning and support provision) to develop the programme. It will collaborate with related training developments, the Wales Doctoral Training Centre, and the Swansea-based ASCC project.
ASCC Swansea University • Focussed on the development of evidence enriched practice … or ‘Making Research Count’. • Nationally – developing strong links with Care Council for Wales and SSIA, and making best use of all available resources, e.g. SCIE, RiP & RiPfA. • Locally – pilot work with four Local Authorities and a large third sector social care provider, e.g. approaches to community based prevention, relationship centred social work and dementia service development. • Recognising that research is only one part of evidence, along with practitioner wisdom, the voice of service users and carers and organisational knowledge - BUT when brought into the mix, it can make a positive difference to people’s lives …….. as the following photostory will hopefully show.