Nurturing Resilience for Children and Families: What are the Protective Factors?
The Round Table will provide the opportunity to consider how to tackle vulnerabilities through supporting and strengthening children, young people and families.

Children in Wales’ Annual Round Table Conference will focus on how to mediate against the negative impact of poverty and disadvantage for children and families and will look particularly at the importance of protective factors and well-being in the promotion of positive child and family outcomes.

Research and practice regarding child welfare has traditionally focused on the identification of risk factors and the design of interventions and services to reduce their impact. Over the last decade or so researchers have been looking at the concept of resilience and have attempted to identify the processes and factors that can help promote and enhance resilience in children, young people and their families. There is now significant recognition of the importance of early intervention and prevention and the promotion of protective factors such as supportive family relationships, strong attachment, supportive schools and communities and improving children and young people’s self esteem.

Gwenda Thomas AM, Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services will speak about the implications of the Social Services and Well-being Bill for children and families and there will be important presentations on child development and early intervention.

Aim of the conference and who should attend?

The aim of the conference is to bring together leading policy makers and professionals in the field to review policy and practice in relation to the promotion of these protective factors and highlight good practice examples. The Round Table will also give delegates the opportunity to consider their own policy and practice, alongside sharing experiences and best practice.  

Organisations are invited to bring display material to share their current promising practice.