Join us for this celebratory event which looks at how the Capabilities Statements and the accompanying toolkit resources, for Social Work with Autistic People and People with Learning Disabilities, have been used to support practice over the last five years.
Background
• The Department for Health and Social care commissioned the development of the Capabilities Statements for social work with people with learning disabilities and social work with autistic people in recognition that there has never been any national guidance for social workers practising in this area.
Join this North Yorkshire branch event open to students and social workers, BASW members and non-members from across the region to find out
Speaker: Julie-Ann Ellenor
Topic: Health and wellbeing provision can help create positive environments where individuals and organisations can thrive.
The interactive workshop will explore: • The importance of wellbeing. • Show how you can support your own and others wellbeing. • Consider how measuring your personal resilience and taking positive action can improve your wellbeing.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
This group meets quarterly on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
This group meets on the 3rd Friday of every month. BASW Independents Local Networks provide a space to create and nurture valuable professional links with other self-employed social workers in your region.
These informal meetings are fully member-led and supported centrally by BASW, with the opportunity to share hot topics and collaborate on wider activities.
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 BASW Southwest Regional Branch would like to welcome you to this session presented by Tommy Henderson-Reay from the Digitising Social Care Programme.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
This group meets on the 3rd Friday of every month. BASW Independents Local Networks provide a space to create and nurture valuable professional links with other self-employed social workers in your region.
These informal meetings are fully member-led and supported centrally by BASW, with the opportunity to share hot topics and collaborate on wider activities.
This is an exciting opportunity to hear first-hand from Teresa Hills Director of Operations Luton Borough Council children’s service on the experience as a Family First Partnership Pathfinder, exploring how, as part of this government programme, Luton is creating the opportunity to be relational in culture and practice and what difference this is making to the loves of children, families and social workers.
Find out about:
• The learning and impact from the Luton journey so far.
In this session led by Soyeb Aswat, we will explore different approaches to working with people experiencing a mental health crisis, which consider their spiritual needs, alongside traditional western social or medical intervention models.
During this session we will hear from a social worker based in a GP practice and learn how being in a universal service such as a GP practice leads to people feeling more able to ask for support or be identified as needing input at a much earlier stage.
We will explore the benefits and challenges related to this service model and consider opportunities this may present in an MDT context.
There will be time for Q and A and general discussion.
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.
Next meeting of the CSW SIG is on 10th February 2026, starting at 6.30pm.
Internationally, Community-based Social Work (CSW) is definitely NOT dead in the water.
Nations facing country-wide disasters know they need to support whole communities. It is time for a revival of our collective understanding about what CSW is and what it can achieve.
If you have an interest in CSW or have ever used CSW skills, join colleagues at this meeting and be part of the BASW Special Interest Group (SIG).
In 2012, Jo Finch had her first article accepted for publication (Finch and Taylor, 2013). From her experience the process of submitting the article and receiving the reviewers’ comments was very painful indeed. It took some no-nonsense words from her former supervisor, being open to what were, generous and helpful advice from the reviewers, umpteen rewrites, and resubmissions, to finally get the “accepted for publication” email.