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.
Join us for our Annual Members’ Meeting on Tuesday 18th February from 5-6:30pm via Teams.
This is your chance to meet the BASW Cymru team and meet other BASW Cymru members as we look back on all our successes and achievements in 2024 and find out what our priorities and goals are for the year ahead. We will also be launching our first campaign for 2025 – Developing specific codes of conduct for Social Workers - join us and be the first to hear all about it!
It is free to join but you do need to book on to receive the joining link.
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!
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
This group meets on the 3rd Friday of every month. BASW Independents Local Networks provide a space to create and nurture valuable professional links with other self-employed social workers in your region.
Join students and social workers from across North Yorkshire for this online event designed to inform, educate and support your continuous learning and development.
This branch event is open to BASW members and non-members, students, social workers and retired social workers living, working or studying in the North Yorkshire area. Speaker: Jo Marriott
The Mental Health Officer Conference 2025 - Reigniting our Resilience: Informing and Future-Proofing the Mental Health Officer Workforce, will take place in person at The Barracks, Stirling.
This conference sponsored by both Scottish Government and Social Work Scotland will offer a fantastic line up of plenary speakers, workshops and networking opportunities. Spaces are limited so book now to secure you place.
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 this extended masterclass, we will explore the challenges and nuances of engaging with children in child protection settings, where fear, mistrust, or trauma may make communication difficult. Rich Devine, drawing on 14 years of frontline experience, will introduce advanced tools and techniques for building trust and capturing the true voice of children in complex safeguarding situations. This session goes beyond communication basics, delving into real-life case studies, practical exercises, and reflective practice.
Findings from recent research led by Professor Anita Franklin and team at MMU and funded by the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre
The session will explore findings from three studies, one on Modern slavery and children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, one on Early Conversations with these young people and the third (not yet published) on support for parents exploring families’ experiences.
Are you a social work professional interested in coaching?
With more understanding of the value of coaching for social workers and various research projects currently looking at the impact of coaching for social workers, this is a hot topic.
We want to develop an international platform for those interested in coaching and social work to come together, share knowledge, and support a movement to demonstrate the effectiveness and need of coaching within social work.
This session hosted by the Greater Manchester BASW branch welcomes Dr Krystal Wilkinson speak on key women’s reproductive health issues (menstruation to menopause) and their intersection with employment.
This online session delivered by Patricia Wennell is an opportunity to explore and discuss how a career in social work, when living with trauma from abuse in childhood, might be impacting on the worker and their wellbeing.
Learning outcomes :-
Understanding how trauma from abuse in childhood can impact the adult.
Signs of a person living with trauma.
How might lived experience of childhood abuse enhance or challenge professional practice.
Working in partnership with individuals and families Relationship-based social work is something that we probably all had in mind when going into this profession but how do we actually do it when people have been given no choice other than to have us in their lives or when expectations and wishes differ from ours? What are the barriers to good partnership working and how can we overcome them? We will look at different approaches of partnership working that might help us in achieving relationship-based practice.
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.