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.
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’.
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!
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.
Many social workers practicing in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VSCE) sector do not work alongside other social workers and may not have an opportunity to reflect on their practice with other Social Workers using social work frameworks.
The purpose of this Support Forum is to have a safe, positive, solution focussed and confidential space for social workers employed in the VSCE sector to meet their peers, provide support to each other and to discuss and explore issues that arise.
Section 117 is an enforceable freestanding duty placed on both local social services authorities and NHS commissioners to provide non-chargeable aftercare services to eligible people as defined in the Mental Health Act legislation. This session will explore the challenges and examples of good practice in the provision of Section 117 aftercare.
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.
If you’ve ever wondered about joining a BASW branch, or setting one up, this is the event for you! Join representatives from BASW branches across the country in this fringe event to learn about how branches operate and what they can offer you as a member.
This online forum is for NQSWs, social workers looking for their first employed role in England or a change in role and those looking to return to the profession after a career break.
This online forum is for social workers looking for their first employed social work role in England or for those who are looking to return to the profession after a career break. You may also find the session helpful if you have been in the same role for a long time and are now applying for alternative social work jobs.