BASW Professional Learning Webinar Replay Library

Dr Gillian Ferguson and Professor Sarah Vicary

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IPA is a methodology for research that focuses on learning from lived experience. The course explores a holistic model of IPA that has a focus on creating new knowledge and making a difference for social work. 

IPA is ideal for practitioners and academics who want to gather rich data about the nature of people’s experiences and the meaning this has for people. The course would explore how IPA has a good fit with social work professional values and interventions offering an essential contribution to our work. 

Examples of studies will be used to illustrate the potential of IPA as one of the methods that can delve into lived experience and represent creative, detailed accounts as evidence to inform practice. 

The webinar would also provide an overview of the alignment of IPA with professional and regulatory standards in education and training in the UK social work education and continuing learning context.  

Emma Birks - Campaigns Manager - West Midlands and Louise Calvey - Director, Asylum Matters

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Organised in partnership with Asylum Matters, this webinar is designed to inform social workers about the changes proposed by the UK Government on family returns, deportation, and the changes which would prevent social workers and local authorities from providing support to families, children, and care leavers without a secure immigration status. 

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This webinar explores what has and hasn’t changed in policy and practice in the last 15 years and hear about the work of the BASW England-supported Homes not Hospitals campaign.