BASW England Annual Members Meeting and Conference 2025 Creating Safe Spaces for Social Workers: Celebrating and Supporting Social Work Identity
Join us for our fifth virtual conference and annual members meeting, chaired by BASW England Committee Chair Vava Tampa.
Annual Members Meeting 2025 | 16th October 12:00-13:30
Free Event (BASW Members Only)
This is your opportunity to learn more about the work BASW England has led on during the last year, share your perspectives and help shape our future activities.
An introduction to BASW England Branches | 16th October 18:00-19:00
Free Event
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
BASW England Conference 2025 | 22nd October
Free for BASW Members. For our second session, we are pleased to be joined by Chief Social Worker, Sarah McClinton.
Session 1: Shades of Bias | 10:00-11:30
This interactive workshop will be chaired by BASW member Valerie Chopamba. We’ll explore how BASW members and student members have used our new Shades of Bias tool and reflect together on how it can be applied to different forms of discrimination in the workplace and in education. Other speakers include Pauline Sergeant from the Black Professionals Symposium, Angela Agbala, Chair of the Student & NQSW group, and Jenni Burton from the Professional Capabilities and Development Group.
We will spend some time looking at examples from the Shades of Bias webpage. We would encourage you to use the template and look at the examples before the session. You can find these on the Shades of Bias webpage here.
Session 2: Making a difference from the start // Social Workers’ role in prevention | 12:30-14:00
Join BASW members for an opportunity to spotlight and celebrate the varied and diverse roles that social workers undertake in communities, which play a key part in the prevention agenda.
We know that the prevention agenda is often referred to in terms of models which divert people from needing statutory services local authority services or NHS services, but today’s session will explore so much more than that.
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.
We will examine the presence of VCSE social workers in a wide range of roles and how their preventative approach can support individuals to develop their local networks, leading to more fulfilling lives and building a sense of connectedness.
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.
There will be opportunities for you to share models of good practice and explore some of the barriers to building on existing prevention models.
Tickets
| Ticket Type | Price Per Session (including VAT) |
| Expert by experience/carer | FREE |
| Member | FREE |
| Student Non-Member | £10.00 |
| Non-Member | £25.00 |