By the Profession, For the Profession: How BASW members shape our resources | Launch Event

Join us for this companion event to BASW England's Annual Members Meeting, launching two new resources shaped by BASW members - the Professional Capabilities Framework Refresh and the Social Work in Multi-Disciplinary Practice Guidance.

We'll hear a short presentation from contributors to each resource followed by a Q&A. We'll then have some time to discuss how to get involved with developing resources with BASW and hear your suggestions about potential resources we should create in the future.

The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) is a framework for social work practice and learning in England. It promotes and underpins social work as ‘one profession’ across all specialisms and roles. The PCF supports social workers to meet the requirements of the professional regulator, specific guidance and policy for particular job roles and is aligned with the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) global definition of social work through the BASW Code of Ethics for social workers across the UK. It underpins our continuing professional development by helping us to identify and map learning and improvement through different career stages. Also, the PCF supports employers, workforce leads, managers and supervisors as well as individual social workers in developing social work careers and ongoing professional learning.

Since its inception in 2012, the PCF has been utilised widely and is deeply embedded across the sector – from qualifying training through to strategic workforce planning.

This session will launch the refreshed PCF, which has been developed “by the profession, for the profession”.

Ongoing policy developments across the English NHS and adult and children’s social care once again place multi-disciplinary working firmly in the spotlight. BASW believes this is a timely opportunity to highlight the longstanding role of social work within multi-disciplinary contexts, while also recognising the profession’s potential to make an even broader contribution in the future. While a range of resources already address multi-disciplinary and integrated working, there remains a need for a document that specifically articulates the unique contribution of social workers.

We'll hear from two BASW members who contributed to this publication, bringing to life the unique contribution that social workers make to social justice, ethical practice, person-centred approaches and co-production. This publication explores the shared social work values and approaches that span diverse multi-disciplinary settings and challenges common assumptions about the profession.

More details and speakers to follow.