Infographic showing children's social care policy changes from 2022-2025 - available to download as a PDF below
Influencing Policy and Legislation
- Ongoing: we are working on a response to the post qualifying standards and induction for child and family social workers
- January 2024 response to Children's Social Care Inquiry
- January 2024 response to the Child and Family Agency Social Work Rule Consultation
- November 2023: response to the National Advocacy Standards and statutory guidance for advocacy consultation
- August 2023: response to the Working Together Consultation
- May 2023: response to the Children’s Social Care National Framework consultation
- May 2023: the group issued our final response to Children's social care strategy: Stable Homes, Built on Love
- May 2023: response to the Child and Family Social Worker Workforce Consultation
If you would like a copy of any of these responses, please contact the England team at england@basw.co.uk
Publications and Output from the Group
- Review into children's social care information hub: The Department for Education announced its Review of Children’s Social Care in England in January 2021. The review aimed to support the needs of England’s most vulnerable children, so they experience the benefits of a stable, loving home. The information hub gives an overview of the work done by the C&F group to keep members informed and engaged in the review process. (January 2021 to June 2023)
- BASW England consulted with members in response to the 3 Department of Education consultations (Stable Homes Built on Love, The Children’s Social Care National Framework and the Child and Family Social Worker Workforce) which ran simultaneously until May 2023. Contributions to the consultations were gathered through member workshops, and direct input from members of the Children and Families Thematic Group. A combined summary of BASW England's response to the 3 consultations can be viewed here.
- Social work with families who are homeless or who have housing needs: A reflective guide for social workers and social work managers (January 2022)
- The context, roles and tasks of the child and family social worker: A resource for politicians, journalists and media representatives who contact BASW for briefings, usually when a particularly troubling event has occurred (and through them, members of the public), but also for those contemplating a career in social work, or those in the early stages of their training considering which social work path to follow. (June 2018, updated September 2020)
BASW Resources and CPD
- BASW England 80-20 Campaign Information Hub: Our campaign to uphold relationship-based social work has lots of recorded events and other resources for children and families social workers
- Communicating and Engaging with Children Webinar: Professor Michelle Lefevre and Charlotte Jenkins reflect on the importance of play, wishes and feelings and life-story work, non-verbal communication and how to use supervision effectively.
- Child Sexual Exploitation: A rights and relationship-based approach webinar: Professor Michelle Lefevre examines ways in which young people’s rights and autonomy may sometimes conflict with their safety.
- BASWTalk – Ep 13 Family Court Proceedings: Julia Palfreyman and Ruth Hawkins (family law solicitor) discuss the social worker role with children involved in family court proceedings.
Recommended External Reading
- The Truth Project- Experiences Shared
- ‘Both/And’ Not ‘Either/Or’: Reconciling Rights to Protection and Participation in Working with Child Sexual Exploitation
- Social Workers Toolbox - Sexual Exploitation Resources
- Barnardo's - Child sexual exploitation (CSE)
- NWG - Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation
- Childhood violent and aggressive behaviour guidance
- Wiltshire County Council CiCC (Children in Care Council Committee) Podcast
- Gateshead Council - YJS Digital Me