Making a difference from the start // Social Workers’ role in prevention | BASW England Annual Conference 2025 Session 2
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 will be joined by Chief Social Worker for Adults, Sarah McClinton.
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.
Speakers:
Soyeb Aswat is a Independent Registered Social Worker who has worked as a front-line Social Worker within the Local Authority and within the NHS for nearly 25 years. He is currently a Social Work professional Lead with an NHS setting and is also a AMHP and BIA.
Jon Hyslop
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