Events

Neurodivergent Student, NQ and ASYE social workers A sub-group of the NSW SIG

A safe community space for neurodivergent (ND) student social workers, ASYE and newly qualified social workers (NQSW) in the UK.

Please note that this is a safe space for peer support only, and not for CPD purposes. If you are unsure whether you may join this community, please email Helen Randle on policyadmin@basw.co.uk in the first instance. Many thanks.

Centre for Mental Health has explored the role of inpatient services in mental health care, and the range of alternatives that could be developed to reduce reliance on beds. It has also set out a shared vision for mental health services over the next decade and explored a range of inequalities in our mental health care system. This talk will summarise those findings and open up discussion about what the vision for the next decade should look like and how we can get there.

This comprehensive session offers a deep dive into effective risk assessment within child protection, including a focus on how biases, pressures, and incomplete information can impact decision-making. Rich Devine will introduce cutting-edge strategies for using chronologies as powerful tools in risk assessment, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring defensible, child-centred decisions. Rich will also provide practical ideas to write analysis and assess capacity to change. Learning Outcomes: • Develop a deeper understanding of cognitive biases that impair judgment.

BASW England Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Branch Presents: Through the gate - Collaborative working to build safer lives for women in prison, their families and our communities.

Lyn Shackleton is an Offender Manager, working for the Probation Service in Derbyshire.

This session will explore some of the challenges facing the sector in accessing Social Work Apprenticeships, focusing on the provision of ‘statutory task social work placements’ (often referred to as ‘Final’ placements), meeting the requirements of Social Work England. Lessons learned will be shared on the successful application of innovative approaches to widening access to Social Work Degree Apprenticeships, delivered at the University of Hertfordshire. Information will be provided on:

Join students and social workers from across North and West Yorkshire for this exciting and unique in person event designed to enable you to build connections and nurture your professional identify and to inform and educate supporting your continuous learning and development.

This joint branch event is open to BASW members and non-members, students, social workers and retired social workers living, working or studying in the North and West Yorkshire area. Speakers: Babalwa Nyengane (social worker) other speakers to be announced!

What to expect:

Supported by BASW, the Neurodivergent Social Workers Special Interest Group (NSW SIG) is a SIG for neurodivergent social workers, and professionals within social care.

If you are a social worker who is neurodivergent, come and join us, let’s be the change and make our workplace neuro-inclusive! This vibrant, active SIG meets online, usually on MS Teams, on the last Tuesday of every month, 7pm till 8.30pm.

In this session we will explore what we mean by personal outcomes and some of the challenges and opportunities in recording them. We will also explore how we might use them as a catalyst for learning and practice development and how we maintain the voice of the person in our recording.

This session is FREE to BASW Cymru members however non-members may attend as a free taster session.

Developing Cultural Competence: Assessing ethnically diverse individuals and families.

In this session, we will be exploring theory, models and approaches.

This session is free to BASW Cymru members however non-members may also attend as a free taster session.

As part of the strategic commitment to addressing and reducing the persistent racial disparities within the youth justice system, Keith Fraser will discuss the importance of partnership working and a whole system approach. This aims to foster more equitable outcomes for children from all ethnicities and backgrounds, with a focus on disrupting the path towards offending and dismantling the barriers that contribute to racial inequalities, to create safer communities with fewer victims.

Part of BASW's 2024-25 NQSW CPD Programme

Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.

Ethics, Values and Rights-Based Practice for NQSWs meets the following National Standards:

England: PCF2 – Values and Ethics, PCF3 – Diversity, PCF4 Rights and Justice, PCF 6 – Critical Reflection, Adult PQS3 – Person-Centred Practice, Childrens PQS1 – Relationships and Direct Work, Childrens PQS8 – Law, Family and Youth Justice.