Member event

BASW England Adult Social Work Forums: Focused time for Critical Reflection - 20.03.2025

to 2:00pm
About this event

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!

Fortnightly drop-in

Re-starting from the 9th January 2025 and then fortnightly been 1-2pm on a Thursday, join the forum for the opportunity to critically reflect, challenge your thinking, share ideas and learn with peers.

This forum will enable you to explore approaches to practice using a range of theory, policy, law, practice models and approaches, including a human rights-based perspective to re-connect with social work values and ethics.

Dates for January – May 2025, always held between 1-2pm, MS Teams online:

9.1.2025 23.1.2025 6.2.2025 20.2.2025 6.3.2025 20.3.2025 3.4.2025 17.4.2025 1.5.2025 15.5.2025 29.5.2025

You are invited to join this forum to: • Share ideas and challenges with peers. • Explore ethical issues and dilemmas. • Consider the legal and policy context for social work practice. • Critically reflect from an intersectional and anti-oppressive • practice perspective. • Take away strategies and solutions to strengthen your social • work practice.

Expectations of members in joining the forum; - That you will contribute to the discussion. - You will have your camera on (unless unable to do so). - Maintain confidentiality. - Challenge the view not the person.

NB: Anyone attempting to join after ten minutes won’t be admitted to the forum but will be contacted afterwards with the opportunity to book onto an alternative forum date.

Joining details will be provided when you book.

Contact liz.howard@basw.co.uk for further details.