Charlotte Waits

2024

• Waits, C. 2024. The extent of consent and other stories - From an ethnography of child protection services. Presented at: 17th Annual Ethnography Symposium, Cardiff, UK, 28 - 30 August 2024.
• Waits, C. 2024. Leadership in children’s services: three different approaches. Presented at: CASCADE Seminar Series for the Welsh Government, Cardiff, UK, 10 July 2024.
• Rees, A., Waits, C., Bezeczky, Z., Parent, K., Wray, B. and Mulcahy, J. 2024. Social work across boundaries: Findings from an evaluation of a service supporting mothers in prison. Evaluation of the Together a Chance pilot project 2021-23. Presented at: 13th European Conference for Social Work Research, Vilnius, Lithuania, 17-19 April 2024.
• Rees, A., Waits, C. and Bezeczky, Z. 2024. Final report. Together a chance: Evaluation of the social workers for Mother in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023. Project Report. Cardiff, Wales: CASCADE Research Centre.

2023

• Waits, C., Rees, A., Bezeczky, Z., Parent, K., Wray, B. and Mulcahy, J. 2023. What works in prison research? The experience of evaluating the Together a Chance pilot project. Presented at: Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference (JSWEC), Glasgow, UK, 15-16 June 2023.
• Rees, A., Waits, C. and Bezeczky, Z. 2023. Together a chance. Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023 : Second interim report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff Univeristy. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/Together-a-Chance-Evaluation-Y2-Interim-Report-22-June-.pdf

2022

• Rees, A., Bezeczky, Z. and Waits, C. 2022. Together a Chance: Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in Prison pilot project, 2021-2023: 1st Interim Report. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE), Cardiff University. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/03/TaC-evaluation-1st-interim-report-June-2022.pdf
• Forrester, D., Wood, S., Waits, C., Jones, R., Bristow, D. and Taylor-Collins, E. 2022. Children's social services and care rates in Wales: A survey of the sector. Project Report. [Online]. Cardiff: Wales Centre for Public Policy. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.54454/20220311

2019

• Forrester, D. et al. 2019. What is the relationship between worker skills and outcomes for families in child and family social work?. British Journal of Social Work 49(8), pp. 2148-2167. (10.1093/bjsw/bcy126)

2018

• Forrester, D. et al. 2018. A randomized controlled trial of training in motivational Interviewing for child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 88, pp. 180-190. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.014)