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”
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 :
Chloe Whittall
Chloe is a qualified and Social Work England registered Social Worker who has worked in both voluntary sector and in statutory service settings, including practice as a Consultant Social Worker within children's safeguarding services.
Chloe holds qualifications in Social Work, Counselling, Diploma in Systemic Family Therapy, Practice Education, Management and Leadership and Training. She is a practicing BIA and Practice Educator / Assessor.
Chloe oversees DCC-i's practice activity, including specialist assessment and the children and family offers. She also provides leadership across their ASYE / NQSW and Practice Education / Assessor programmes.
BASW members please log in to your BASW account prior to booking to maintain your CPD record
10.07.24 Professional Curiosity in working with People who use services training
***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 lack of Professional Curiosity across public and third sector organisations is often highlighted in serious case reviews, across all types of health and social care settings, as a key factor in professionals not having safeguarded individuals as effectively as they could have. This course takes a strengths-based systemic approach, that is underpinned by the concept that professionals working together and communicating effectively within a culture of supportive peer challenge can achieve a holistic response to individuals, their families and supporters, that maximises the positives and proactively reduces and manages risk.
This course also pays particular attention to involving the individuals, families and their networks in our professional curiosity, supporting individuals to fully engage with professionals to help us understand their lived experience. Understanding the lived experience of people who use services, is about more than managing risk, in understanding the lived experience of people we work with we are more likely to empower them to make positive sustainable changes,
This course will encourage delegates to consider how they can critically reflect and analyse situations to understand what is happening in a family rather than making assumptions and taking situations at face value. The course covers factors that support and promote professional curiosity in practice as well as identifying obstacles to professional curiosity and employ practical strategies to ensure that curiosity is maintained and utilised in all areas of practice.
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. Local templates and expectations will be embedded in the programme where required and appropriate.
Learning Outcomes:
This course will provide participants with the following learning outcomes:
- To understand what professional curiosity looks like and why it matters.
- To understand what promotes or hinders professional curiosity.
- To use professional curiosity to build an understanding of the lived experience of the people we support in order to more effectively meet their needs.
- To be able to utilise a range of tools that increase curiosity when working with individuals and their supporters.
- Develop and apply listening, questioning, and critical reflection skills to explore what is happening.
- Develop an ability to challenge ones’ own assumptions, enquire more deeply, not accept things at face value and check information received.
- Feel confident in having curious and uncomfortable conversations with people we are working with to understand and respond effectively to risk
Programme Outline
09.00 Log-in – Check your connection, camera & mic (then get a cuppa)
09.30 Introduction to the session and the tech, welcome and ground rules
09.40 What Professional Curiosity as & why it matters:
- Understanding the lived experience of the people we work with
- Learning from SARS/SCR’s
- The impact of values, beliefs and biases
- Healthy scepticism, respectful uncertainty, verificationism, safe uncertainty
11.00 COFFEE / SCREEN BREAK
11.20 What increases and decreases Professional Curiosity:
- Relational, practice and structural risks
- Multi-agency working
- Voice of the service user / Co-production
- Recognising the impact of your own professional lens
12.45 LUNCH BREAK / SCREEN BREAK
13.30 Tools for being curious with people:
- Genograms, eco-maps and chronologies
- Strengths-based Practice
- MI and BSFT
15.00 COFFEE / SCREEN BREAK
15.20 Professional curiosity and managing risk:
- Difficult Conversations
- Boundaries and Supervision
- Multi-agency working.
16.15 Evaluation and Feedback
16.30 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
"Best training I have had since starting my role as a social worker"