
Get your career off to a great start with our CPD programme expertly designed to support those setting out in practice. Delivered by BASW’s accredited training provider DCC-i covering topic areas pertinent to early career social workers. Offering valuable opportunities to learn, reflect and network with other delegates starting out their careers in social work.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions.
Suitable for newly qualified social workers and students
Courses detailed below are 9.30am - 4.30pm, each attracting 6hrs CPD
Price per session:
BASW Members £49.00 + VAT (£58.80)
BASW Non Members £99.00 + VAT (£118.80)
We offer discounted prices for BASW members. For organisations booking 5 or more places on any one session, contact us at ProfDE@basw.co.uk to discuss preferential rates.
“The pace of the course was good with interactive elements which allowed us to participate so we were kept engaged in the subject”
19.12.23 How to handle difficult conversations
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Session now full - further date available to book on 16/04/2024
Course Outline:
Even the most experienced social workers can struggle with broaching sensitive topics, whether with service users or colleagues.
The morning of this workshop will provide you practical skills in introducing yourself and explaining your role to service users and professionals, providing guidance on how to prepare for difficult conversations. This includes revisiting key areas such as listening skills, empathy, professional curiosity, understanding the positions of the service user, being able to communicate difficult messages and rolling with resistance. We often think that talking to other professionals will be easier than talking to service users, however different priorities, approaches and perspectives can cause tensions with other professionals and these conversations can be equally challenging, particularly as a student where there may feel like there is a significant power differential between you and another professional.
Building on the morning content, the afternoon session looks at the skills needed to give service users and/or their family a decision or outcome that they don’t want to hear, and how to try and maintain a positive working relationship with them despite this difficulty. The session also looks at what to do if a conversation doesn’t go as planned and/or the person becomes distressed, agitated or aggressive, covering basic de-escalation techniques and how to keep yourself and others safe.
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- Be able to confidently explain what your role is, the limitation and powers you have, the statutory basis for your intervention and the rights and choices of the individual, and do so in accessible, professional and empathetic way.
- The skills and guidance to engage with service users and professionals who may not welcome your intervention or agree with your approach.
- The skill to hear the service users voice and respond to their needs whilst still carrying out your role and considering risk and safeguarding responsibilities.
- Be able to have challenging conversations with other professionals.
- Know how to plan for giving someone a decision or outcome they don’t want, and how to maintain relationships afterwards.
- Knowing how to respond if conflict arises from the difficult conversation.
- Understanding of techniques which can be used if conversations don’t go to plan including de-escalation techniques.
- Understand how to keep yourself and others safe.
- Know how to debrief and learn from challenging experience
Resources required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.40 What are the basics and how can we apply them appropriately?
• Active listening, empathy and professional curiosity
• Explaining your role, statutory duties and responsibilities.
• Explaining a service users rights and choices – including complaints procedures and advocacy.
• Considering diversity, communication needs and styles.
• Hearing the voice of the service user and their family
• Working in Partnership with other professionals.
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 How do we manage difficult conversations and resistance?
• Understanding the service user/professional position – using the cycle of change.
• Using Motivational Interviewing techniques such as permissionseeking, decisional balance, menu’s of options and Rolling with resistance.
• Agreeing a way forward – Coordinated Management of Meaning.
1.00 LUNCH
1.45 How can we maximise a difficult conversation going well?
• Prepping yourself
• Prepping the service user / family.
• Prepping other services
• Being clear on what the decision is and the rationale.
• Considering the best form of communication for the circumstances and for that particular person from what you know.
• Being able to stay on topic.
• Giving the person choices where you can, reminding them of their rights in terms of appear, complaints, advocacy, legal advice.
3.00 COFFEE
3.20 What do we do if it doesn’t go according to plan?
• Using de-escalation techniques.
• Having a safety plan.
• Using support of others.
• Debriefing and learning.
• Renewing and repairing the working relationship.
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer:
Tony Clamp, Specialist Trainer (Motivational Interviewing)
Tony is an Social Work England registered Social Worker with 25 years experience in both the voluntary & statutory sectors of social care.
Since qualifying as a Social Worker, Tony has held academic positions at a number of British universities, as well as spending time as a children's social care practitioner.
Tony is an experienced motivational interviewing practitioner and trainer. As one of DCC-i's core crew, Tony specialises in Motivational Interviewing and its application in practice as a means to improve the quality of child & family safeguarding.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
Session now full - further date now available to book on 16/04/2024
09.01.24 Recording with care
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline
Good record keeping serves many purposes and the frameworks of data protection, care management, and confidentiality are all areas which participants need to be aware of. This one-day session is designed to support Students /Newly Qualified Social Workers to effectively document their practice and incorporate meaningful analysis into all levels of case note recording and review processes to ensure staff are able to articulate clear evidence-based recommendations for the individuals care-plan.
The course will provide participants with practical tips for ensuring case notes in all formats, for a range of purposes are concise and easy to follow, whilst still capturing the voice of the child/vulnerable adult/service user and containing the necessary depth for complex decision making and long-term care-planning. This Session also supports Students / Newly Qualified Social Workers to be reflective in their practice and learning and to identify both their strengths and areas for development.
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Resources required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- How to write an appropriate length and dept the record.
- How to know what to include and if anything should ever be left out,
- How to record concisely, accurately and appropriately.
- How to capture hypothesis & analysis.
- How to record actions and recommendations.
- How to be accountable and defensible
- Lessons from Serious Case Reviews
- An opportunity to reflect on practice, strengths and areas for development
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.40 Group Exercise: What makes a good record?
10.00 How do we decide what to include and what to leave out?
• Writing accurately
• Writing concisely
• Writing defensibly
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 Capturing perceptions & hypothesis
• Using evidence, theory and research
• Explaining views of risk or future possibilities
12.00 Making Recommendations
• Linking content to plans
• Being SMART
• Sharing information
12.30 LUNCH
1.15 Exploring the importance of reflection in practice.
• Why does it matter?
• How can we make it meaningful?
• How can we ensure its integrated into practice?
2.45 COFFEE
3.00 Personal Assessment
• Strengths
• Areas for development
• Personal Plan
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer:
Tony Clamp, Specialist Trainer (Motivational Interviewing)
Tony is an Social Work England registered Social Worker with 25 years experience in both the voluntary & statutory sectors of social care.
Since qualifying as a Social Worker, Tony has held academic positions at a number of British universities, as well as spending time as a children's social care practitioner.
Tony is an experienced motivational interviewing practitioner and trainer. As one of DCC-i's core crew, Tony specialises in Motivational Interviewing and its application in practice as a means to improve the quality of child & family safeguarding.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
13.02.24 Assessment and Evidence-Informed Decision Making
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline:
This one-day session is designed to support students & Newly Qualified Social Workers to effectively incorporate meaningful analysis into all levels of assessment and review processes to ensure they are able to articulate clear evidence- based recommendations for the child / family, individual and/or carer. The course will provide participants with practical tips for ensuring assessments are concise and easy to follow whilst still containing the necessary depth for complex decision making and support planning within the social care legislative and policy frameworks
Learning Outcomes:
This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- A clear understanding and ability to articulate the needs of an individual, free from jargon and with a clear analysis regarding the implications of leaving needs unmet, the options for responding and how successful outcomes can be measured
- The ability to effectively analyse information gathered during the assessment or review process to make appropriate decisions and inform both case management and support planning.
- A transferable approach that can be used for a range of settings.
- The ability to articulate clearly, concisely and appropriately record information, understanding the difference between fact, professional opinion and being aware of bias.
- The ability to articulate the reasoning for decision-making and recommendations, including considering legal responsibilities to children and vulnerable adults, assessment of risk, issues of capacity, consent, wishes & feelings, available options and how to explain clearly professional rationale and own professional judgement.
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Resources Required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.45 Legislative and Policy Framework
• How does law and policy guide our practice?
10.15 Understanding and explaining ‘Needs’
• Be outcome-focused and strengths-based
• Identifying, assessing and articulating options
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 Understanding facts, opinions, and professional judgment
• Becoming aware of unconscious bias
• Capturing the views of service users, family and professionals
• Reflection on practice
12.30 LUNCH
1.15 Analysing Information
• Considering capacity, consent and choice, including unwise decisions
• Considering Risks, Strengths and Protective Factors
2.40 COFFEE
3.00 Articulating your analysis in assessment reports
• Considering purpose and audience
• Recording reflections, hypothesis, and decisions
• Being concise, clear and accessible.
4.00 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer:
Tony Clamp, Specialist Trainer (Motivational Interviewing)
Tony is an Social Work England registered Social Worker with 25 years experience in both the voluntary & statutory sectors of social care.
Since qualifying as a Social Worker, Tony has held academic positions at a number of British universities, as well as spending time as a children's social care practitioner.
Tony is an experienced motivational interviewing practitioner and trainer. As one of DCC-i's core crew, Tony specialises in Motivational Interviewing and its application in practice as a means to improve the quality of child & family safeguarding.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
14.03.24 Managing Unseen Risk
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline:
A particular anxiety for newly qualified frontline practitioners is the assessment of risk, this workshop gives frontline practitioners in both Children and Adults settings some frameworks for conceptualising and assessing risks; ideas to consider for triangulating information effectively and methods of analysing and articulating risk. This session is an opportunity for professionals to share ideas and experiences from their own practice and engage in valuable peer support which can increase professional confidence and resilience.
The course will explore the impact of our own values, bias and beliefs on understanding, assessing and managing risk including an exploration of whether this makes our practice risk adverse or conversely prompts unsafe risk-taking. The principles of safe accountable positive risk-taking will be explored. Recording decision-making around risk in a defensible manner will also be covere
Learning Methods:
A combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including lecture, workshop and group work. Interactive and experiential methods, group and pair work, and interactive activities in the form of quizzes, polls, case studies, and reflection dilemmas will be used, to inform participant learning and support application to practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- Be able to identify possible (unseen) risks (e.g: neglect/abuse/emotional harm/restricted rights)
- Outline ways of conceptualising risk to help evaluate them and the options for managing them effectively.
- Explore the impact of our personal and professional values on how we view and respond to risk.
- Explore ways of assessing risk and triangulating information.
- Explore the principles of positive risk-taking.
- Know how to seek support and/or escalate concerns.
- Know how to record risk in an accountable manner.
Resources Required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.45 Defining Risk:
10.15 Understanding our Perceptions of Risk:
• Beliefs & values
• Experience & Knowledge
• Role and Remit.
11.00 COFFEE
11.20 Conceptualising Risk
• Static & Dynamic Risk.
• Assessing Likelihood and seriousness.
• Safe uncertainty.
12.30 LUNCH
1.15 Understanding capacity, choice & the right to make unwise decisions:
• The relationship between Capacity, Risk and Safeguarding Duties
• Can Children and Parents make unwise decisions?
• Risk assessment & management in relation to unwise decisions
2.30 COFFEE
2.50 Positive Risk-Taking Principles:
• Why, When and How to take positive risks.
• Barriers to Service User Engagement.
• Collaborative Risk Management Plans.
• Assessing when positive risk-taking is not appropriate.
3.50 Recording risk in an accountable and defensible manner:
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps.
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer:
Tony Clamp, Specialist Trainer (Motivational Interviewing)
Tony is an Social Work England registered Social Worker with 25 years experience in both the voluntary & statutory sectors of social care.
Since qualifying as a Social Worker, Tony has held academic positions at a number of British universities, as well as spending time as a children's social care practitioner.
Tony is an experienced motivational interviewing practitioner and trainer. As one of DCC-i's core crew, Tony specialises in Motivational Interviewing and its application in practice as a means to improve the quality of child & family safeguarding.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
16.04.24 How to handle difficult conversations
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline:
Even the most experienced social workers can struggle with broaching sensitive topics, whether with service users or colleagues.
The morning of this workshop will provide you practical skills in introducing yourself and explaining your role to service users and professionals, providing guidance on how to prepare for difficult conversations. This includes revisiting key areas such as listening skills, empathy, professional curiosity, understanding the positions of the service user, being able to communicate difficult messages and rolling with resistance. We often think that talking to other professionals will be easier than talking to service users, however different priorities, approaches and perspectives can cause tensions with other professionals and these conversations can be equally challenging, particularly as a student where there may feel like there is a significant power differential between you and another professional.
Building on the morning content, the afternoon session looks at the skills needed to give service users and/or their family a decision or outcome that they don’t want to hear, and how to try and maintain a positive working relationship with them despite this difficulty. The session also looks at what to do if a conversation doesn’t go as planned and/or the person becomes distressed, agitated or aggressive, covering basic de-escalation techniques and how to keep yourself and others safe.
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- Be able to confidently explain what your role is, the limitation and powers you have, the statutory basis for your intervention and the rights and choices of the individual, and do so in accessible, professional and empathetic way.
- The skills and guidance to engage with service users and professionals who may not welcome your intervention or agree with your approach.
- The skill to hear the service users voice and respond to their needs whilst still carrying out your role and considering risk and safeguarding responsibilities.
- Be able to have challenging conversations with other professionals.
- Know how to plan for giving someone a decision or outcome they don’t want, and how to maintain relationships afterwards.
- Knowing how to respond if conflict arises from the difficult conversation.
- Understanding of techniques which can be used if conversations don’t go to plan including de-escalation techniques.
- Understand how to keep yourself and others safe.
- Know how to debrief and learn from challenging experience
Resources required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.40 What are the basics and how can we apply them appropriately?
• Active listening, empathy and professional curiosity
• Explaining your role, statutory duties and responsibilities.
• Explaining a service users rights and choices – including complaints procedures and advocacy.
• Considering diversity, communication needs and styles.
• Hearing the voice of the service user and their family
• Working in Partnership with other professionals.
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 How do we manage difficult conversations and resistance?
• Understanding the service user/professional position – using the cycle of change.
• Using Motivational Interviewing techniques such as permissionseeking, decisional balance, menu’s of options and Rolling with resistance.
• Agreeing a way forward – Coordinated Management of Meaning.
1.00 LUNCH
1.45 How can we maximise a difficult conversation going well?
• Prepping yourself
• Prepping the service user / family.
• Prepping other services
• Being clear on what the decision is and the rationale.
• Considering the best form of communication for the circumstances and for that particular person from what you know.
• Being able to stay on topic.
• Giving the person choices where you can, reminding them of their rights in terms of appear, complaints, advocacy, legal advice.
3.00 COFFEE
3.20 What do we do if it doesn’t go according to plan?
• Using de-escalation techniques.
• Having a safety plan.
• Using support of others.
• Debriefing and learning.
• Renewing and repairing the working relationship.
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer:
Tony Clamp, Specialist Trainer (Motivational Interviewing)
Tony is an Social Work England registered Social Worker with 25 years experience in both the voluntary & statutory sectors of social care.
Since qualifying as a Social Worker, Tony has held academic positions at a number of British universities, as well as spending time as a children's social care practitioner.
Tony is an experienced motivational interviewing practitioner and trainer. As one of DCC-i's core crew, Tony specialises in Motivational Interviewing and its application in practice as a means to improve the quality of child & family safeguarding.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record.
23.04.24 Cultural Curiosity, Diversity & Inclusion
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline:
Cultural curiosity is more than recognising differences in race or religion, it involves recognising that we are all shaped by our experiences and are influenced by cultural norms and understanding. All our interactions and communications are interpreted via cultural filters, and it is an understanding of these and how they can impact on working in teams and groups that will be the focus of the day.
The course also explores how diversity is about more than just difference; looking at the use of power within our society and structures, how that power can prevent individuals and groups from accessing or engaging with support and services and our responsibilities in addressing power difference and tailoring our interventions to each unique person. The differences between equality and equity are explored and the importance of recognising structural bias in society that disproportionately disadvantage many individuals that have care and support needs – this includes all the protected characteristics set out in the Equalities Act 2010.
NQSW’s will be supported to consider their own unconscious bias, the inequalities that are present within our own profession and how they can address this in their own practice, giving consideration to the Equalities Act, the Human Rights Act and the Conventions that we are signatories to (EG UNCRPD). Social Work England undertook research in 2021 that indicated that a high proportion of NQSW’s experienced direct discrimination themselves, not only from service users but from colleagues. This course looks to empower NQSW’s/Students to ensure their own diversity needs are met and how to speak up and speak out if their own needs are not met
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Resources Required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- To increase understanding and awareness in relation to working with and alongside individuals from different cultural and social groups and how culture influences how we all experience and engage in professional interactions.
- To consider diversity as a power issue, how this might impact on health and social care practice and professional dynamics and to account for this in practice.
- To reflect on the cultural diversity within participants practice areas, and consider how this might impact on the individual, family and community and how they experience public services.
- To explore concepts of discrimination and oppression arising due to diversity issues. Including how organisational / professional cultures can impact on the experience of individuals working within and/or using public services.
- To be able to demonstrate an awareness of how experiences of discrimination and oppression can be internalised and impact on an individual’s emotional and environmental well-being and be able to recognise and seek support for our own diversity needs
- How to use legislative frameworks to positively empower marginalised members of society and use our professional values and ethics to ensure that Social Work practice upholds the rights of children and families
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech
9.45 What do we mean be cultural curiosity and diversity?
• Defining the terms and issues.
• Understanding the frameworks.
• Making the links to our own experiences and practice.
11.10 COFFEE
11.30 Can we, should we adopt the lens of the individuals / families we work with?
• Ways of understanding the experience of others.
• Risks in attempting to view the world through the lens of another.
• Recognising and responding to our own bias.
• Using legislation and professional ethics as a framework for practice.
12.45 LUNCH
1.30 Communicating effectively about matters of uniqueness.
• Having challenging and uncomfortable conversations effectively.
• Thinking about the impact of language.
• Assumptions, presumptions and respectful uncertainty.
2.30 COFFEE
2.45 Meeting our own diversity needs as well as those of others.
• Identifying your own needs and their impacts.
• Sharing your needs with your manager and assessors.
• Raising concerns and asking for help.
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer
Lizzie Furber - Principal Social Worker
(Practice Education)
Lizzie is a Social Work England registered social worker, warranted Approved Mental Health Professional and Practice Educator. Lizzie has a decade's experience in a range of statutory mental health settings and specialises in working with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness. Lizzie currently works as a senior practitioner in a rough sleepers' mental health team in East London.
Lizzie has particular interest in Care Act 2014 s42 enquiries and self-neglect, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and executive capacity, Mental Health Act assessments for street homeless people and trauma-informed care. Lizzie has experience providing training for Social Work students, ASYE social workers and front-line practitioners in health and social care with the aim of promoting legal literacy and best practice when working with marginalised and "challenging to engage" populations.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD
21.05.24 Ethical dilemmas and legal literacy
***Session for students & NQSWs only***
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
You may pick and choose between topics, there is no need to attend all sessions. To discuss rates for block bookings of 5 or more delegates on any one session, please email ProfDE@basw.co.uk
Course Outline:
This session explores the complexity of legal interfaces, the ethical dilemmas this can raise and the role of the professional in managing and negotiating such issues, including managing power appropriately. Case examples and caselaw will be used to demonstrate how these impact on Social Workers and then considers the transferrable skills needed to ensure NQSWs are able to negotiate these complexities in practice
This session will include:
- An exploration of the Impact of the Covid Pandemic ( & Legislation where applied)
- An exploration of legal interfaces using the Human Rights Act 1998, Children Act 1989, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983
- The balance in legislation between rights, choice and empowerment and safeguarding and public protection.
- The ability to identify and consider the complexities involved in balancing principles of autonomy & protection.
Learning Outcomes:
- This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- An exploration of legal interfaces using the Human Rights Act 1998, Children Act 1989, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Mental Health Act 1983
- Exploring the balance in legislation between rights, choice and empowerment and safeguarding and public protection and what that means in practice.
- Recognising the impact of our own beliefs, values and biases in how we use law
Learning Methods:
This training is delivered using an online interactive classroom approach and all delegates will be expected to take part to ensure an effective adult learning experience. Using whiteboards and breakout rooms, a combination of learning methods will be used throughout the day, including trainer presentation and group work in the form of case studies and reflection dilemmas to support application to practice.
Resources required:
All delegates will need a laptop with a functioning mic and camera and a strong stable internet connection to allow effective participation. Laptops should have an up-to-date browser such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Where possible delegates should be using the MS Teams App, fully updated. Please note – for health and safety reasons it is not appropriate to access these courses from a mobile phone. Whilst tablets can be used; delegates will find a laptop/desktop is easier as functionality on tablets is still limited.
Programme Outline:
9.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (the get a cuppa)
9.30 Introduction to the session and the tech 10.00 Ethics and Values – application in practice
• What are values and ethics? How do they impact our practice?
• What power do we have and how do we use it?
11.00 COFFEE
11.20 Examples of Legal Interfaces & Related Dilemmas
• Mental Health Act / Children’s Act / Mental Capacity Act
12.30 LUNCH
1.45 Examples of Case Law Impact on Practice
• Care Act Challenge
3.00 COFFEE
3.20 Examples of Legal Interfaces & Related Dilemmas
• Use of PR
• Mental Capacity Act Vs Mental Health Act
4.15 Reflection and Review – learning points and next steps
4.30 CLOSE
The Trainer :
Lizzie Furber - Principal Social Worker
(Practice Education)
Lizzie is a Social Work England registered social worker, warranted Approved Mental Health Professional and Practice Educator. Lizzie has a decade's experience in a range of statutory mental health settings and specialises in working with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness. Lizzie currently works as a senior practitioner in a rough sleepers' mental health team in East London.
Lizzie has particular interest in Care Act 2014 s42 enquiries and self-neglect, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and executive capacity, Mental Health Act assessments for street homeless people and trauma-informed care. Lizzie has experience providing training for Social Work students, ASYE social workers and front-line practitioners in health and social care with the aim of promoting legal literacy and best practice when working with marginalised and "challenging to engage" populations.
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