Are you a BASW member who is either a social worker or student working with adults or working with families?
Then this is the forum for you!
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 BASW England Adult Social Work Forums are back for 2025!
Join students and social workers from across West Yorkshire for this exciting online event designed to enable you to build connections, explore your professional identify and to inform and educate supporting your continuous learning and development.
Social worker Identity: Are we submissive or subversive?
As the Mental Health Bill progresses through the House of Lords and Parliament, BASW England has worked with partners to request amendments to key provisions, ensuring the voice of social work is considered within the Bill.
This session will provide an update on the key provisions within the Bill, explore the potential impact for individuals, practice and services. We will also discuss the expected timeline for implementation and consider factors which may impact on certain provisions being enacted.
The session will include time to explore your views on the Bill.
A session uniquely designed and delivered by Siobhan Maclean and delivered on MS Teams
We know from research that the biggest influence on the supervision you provide is the supervision that you receive. There is often very little training to support social workers as they journey into the supervisor role.
This session will look at the What? Why? How? framework in relation to supervision.
We will consider the key questions of what is supervision? Why is good quality supervision in social work important?
Speakers Andrew Reece- Professional Officer for BASW and Sarah Goff
Andrew Reece is a Professional Officer and Registered Social Worker with the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) , where he specialises in Social Work practice with disabled children. Before working for BASW, Andrew was an active BASW member, sitting on their National Standing Committee and supporting both their ‘Homes not Hospitals’ and ‘80-20: Time for Relationship Based Practice’ campaigns.
Understanding Section 17 & Section 47 in Children's Social Care
Join us for the first in a series of thought-provoking workshop series exploring the experiences and impact of social care assessments on children and families. Through structural reflection, we will examine the decision-making process, the effectiveness of interventions, and the role of multiple services. Your reflections will help inform research being conducted by the University of Cambridge. There is no charge for attending.
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 March the DfE published the Families First Partnership programme guide. This non mandatory guide outlines the expectations in reforms of Family Help and multi-agency child protection and promotes greater use of Family Group Decision Making.
The guide is for everyone who works with children, young people and their families including strategic leaders, senior and middle managers, and those in direct practice and will shape how early help services and child protection teams are structured and delivered in the future.
Are you a BASW member who is either a social worker or student working with adults or working with families?
Then this is the forum for you!
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 BASW England Adult Social Work Forums are back for 2025!
Social Work in Child Protection: Professional Practice Programme
Prepare to be inspired with highly practical, research-based training that will equip you with ideas to implement in your social work practice.
Following each session, participants will be provided with a summary information booklet and resources to assist application of learning from the topic.
This session will delve deep into managing resistance, denial, and confrontation in child protection. Conflict is unavoidable when parents are afraid or resistant, yet building relationships is essential.
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.
This Social Work Policy Panel will focus on: Overhauling Eligibility Criteria
The AGM is an opportunity for us to report back on our work and for members to be involved in decisions about priorities for the future. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th June 2025, commencing at 5.00pm to finish by 7.00pm.
The AGM will be an online event on MS Teams. The link to join the AGM will be sent to you following registration of attendance, and again nearer the date of the AGM itself.
Share your experiences of studying or starting your social work career in Scotland as a new graduate - good or bad- with fellow students and NQSWs. Let’s reflect on topics and work on solutions in a supportive informal environment. All welcome!
Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work: The evolution of ethical and moral practice in adoption Social Work
How do Social Workers make ethical decisions within historical and current societal norms?
From the 1950’s forced adoption for unmarried mothers through to Michael Gove’s ‘colour-blind’ reform of adoption guidance in 2012, how have social workers made decisions relating to adoption and how has the evolving moral and ethical context within which we make those decisions changed the way we make those decisions?