Events

**Booking closes midnight 4th June 2025**

Join us at University of Manchester for a two day in person conference

- Speakers from practice, organisational leadership and academia, and by experts by experience of using social work services.

- A range of in person workshops and presentations to choose from

- 12 ½ hours CPD

- Opportunities to network and connect with BASW colleagues across two packed days of discussion, fellowship, learning, and more!

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.

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:

10th July: 9am till 4pm

University of Wolverhampton

Speakers and presenters:

Sarah McClinton, Chief Social Worker for Adults and Mental Health Social Work

Janet Daby, MP Lewisham East

Ruth Allen, CEO, British Association of Social Workers (BASW)

Susan Dobson, Professional Officer at the Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW)

Linda Harms-Smith, Research Associate and Lecturer in Social Work

Echo Yeung, Associate Professor in Research in Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire