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.
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.
As part of our onboarding series we will be delivering specialised focussed sessions throughout the year.
This session will be focussed on Professional Identity in Social Work for experienced social workers qualified for 5 years or more.
In this interactive session, Wayne Reid & Liz Howard (BASW England Professional Officers & Social Workers) will co-deliver a presentation that blends professional insights, social work experiences, practical solutions and constructive challenge.
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!
Internationally, Community-based Social Work (CSW) is definitely NOT dead in the water.
Nations, continually facing country-wide disasters, know they need to support whole communities. We knew it too when Covid first hit us. Facebook groups helping local people sprang up everywhere. They have died down now because there are no resources to sustain the work.
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.
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.
In November 2024 the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published their national review “I wanted them all to notice: Protecting children and responding to child sexual abuse within the family environment.” The findings of this national review highlight a systemic failure across all services to recognise and respond when children are at risk of, or are already, being sexually abused by someone in their family environment.
BASW members log into your account first to view the full list of forum dates and select from the events page: https://basw.co.uk/events
This forum is for BASW members who work with adults in a range of contexts, either as individuals or as part of a family and for social workers at every stage in their career.
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.
Are you a social work professional interested in coaching?
With more understanding of the value of coaching for social workers and various research projects currently looking at the impact of coaching for social workers, this is a hot topic.
We want to develop an international platform for those interested in coaching and social work to come together, share knowledge, and support a movement to demonstrate the effectiveness and need of coaching within social work.
IPA is a methodology for research that focuses on learning from lived experience. The course explores a holistic model of IPA that has a focus on creating new knowledge and making a difference for social work. IPA is ideal for practitioners and academics who want to gather rich data about the nature of people’s experiences and the meaning this has for people. The course would explore how IPA has a good fit with social work professional values and interventions offering an essential contribution to our work.