This online lunch time session will provide an opportunity for members to learn more about BASW UK activities, your membership benefits, advice and representation and how you can access CPD, be involved in our campaigns, consultations, networks and special interest groups.
Your Professional Association connects you with other social workers working in diverse settings across different nations at different stages of career pathways.
Human rights and social justice are core social work values and together we can promote the voice of social work and the BASW Code of Ethics.
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
Since the implementation of the Care Act 2014, working with adults who may be at risk of harm and undertaking safeguarding adults’ enquiries has seen a shift in emphasis from process to personalised responses.
The Southwest regional branch welcomes Matt Stabb, who has a lifetime of lived experience due to having Cerebral Palsy. He is a long-standing disability rights activist committed to supporting Disabled people to make their voices heard and to make change.
He’s also a footie loving, left-wing, antifascist who loves causing a little bit of chaos. Matt is a proud disabled man with a story to tell. Join your local BASW branch to hear from Matt in a Q&A session based on his recently self-published book ‘Keep on Keeping On: Cerebral Palsy: It is what it is’.
Entry to this online event is FREE for SWU members and voting facilities will be provided during the meeting.
When booking your free place: at the Payment Method section please select "Credit Card" and you will be given the option to sign up to the event for free. If you need support registering for this event please contact joanne.marciano@swu-union.org.uk.
Registration deadline: SWU members must register by 12pm (noon) on Thursday September 25th to attend this AGM.
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.
Are you a qualified social worker thinking about a social work career change, or just starting on your journey to qualification as a social work student?
The Greater Manchester Branch would like to invite you to join us in learning about the career and employment possibilities outside of local authority and NHS work.
Hear from social workers working in charitable and voluntary sector, higher education, and independent consultancy. Learn about what their roles involve, get tips and ask the questions you need to know, to get started on your journey!
This session will be delivered by Child Sexual Abuse survivor and founder of The Flying Child, Sophie Olson, and consultant children’s social worker Sarah Pritchard as part of The Flying Child 'Side By Side CSA' training. They will use the powerful tool of storytelling to illustrate the child’s experience leading into the survivor’s journey, and the social harms faced.
Join us for the first of 3 FREE joint webinars hosted by the BASW England Norfolk Branch in partnership with the BASW Children and Families group.
The latest report from the National Child Safeguarding Review Panel was published on 11 March 2025. “It’s Silent”: Race, racism and safeguarding children. This report was undertaken on behalf of the Panel by Jahnine Davis and the VKPP Data Insights Team with support from the Panel member subgroup.
The idea for this group has organically grown from the BASW Independent Social Worker online FaceBook group, where people have been reaching out within the forum to share information, seek advice and guidance. Showing the need for a platform to discuss the positives and the issues impacting the fostering world. The responses have been very heartfelt and demonstrate the necessity of having a community support group, with a common theme of fostering assessments and the evolution of this work.
The panel is jointly run by the Scottish Association of Social Work, the Office of the Chief Social Work Adviser, and Social Work Scotland. The panel was created to bring together experienced frontline workers, newly qualified workers, students and policy makers in Government to address the issues affecting social work today. It is an opportunity to influence those policy makers and the future of social work with your experience and knowledge.
If you are a social worker or social work leader, currently working within an NHS Trust or other health organisation and looking for opportunities to connect with other social workers, share experiences and knowledge then this session is for you.
In a crisis, silence can cost lives psychological safety helps ensure every concern is voiced and heard. This interactive lunchtime session explores how social work skills can strengthen psychological safety in disaster contexts, improving communication, trust and resilience under pressure.
Participants will: • Understand the role of psychological safety in effective disaster response. • Explore guiding principles for fostering trust and open communication in high pressure situations. • Reflect on how social work values can influence collaborative multi agency responses.
At the BASW UK conference in June 2025 an international team of researchers from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Australia delivered BASW’s Kay McDougall Prize Lecture, presenting their award winning article from BJSW: ‘If we know what works, why aren’t we doing it?’ https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/54/6/2808/7685501
In this session, two members of the researhc team will reprise their conference presentation for the benefit of all BASW members.