SASW Mental Health Officers in person Conference 2025

to 4:45pm
About this event

The Mental Health Officer Conference 2025 - Reigniting our Resilience: Informing, Embracing 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.

For group bookings please email scotland@basw.co.uk

The draft agenda is available below, keep and eye out for updates and speaker announcements in due course:

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:10 Chairs welcome

10:10 – 10:30 Police Scotland

10:30 – 10:40 Voice of eXperience Scotland

10:40 – 10:50 MWC

10:50 – 11:00 Q&A

11:00 – 12:30 Workshops

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 Workshops

14:45 – 15:05 MHO Forum and AWI update

15:05 – 15:25 Pearse McCusker, Vicky Souter & Lindsey Young (Newly Qualified MHO's)

15:25 – 15:45 Scottish Government (Workforce Issues)

15:45 - 16:05 Interactive questions

16:05 – 16:30 Panel

16:30 – 16:40 Conference Close

Workshop topics include: Intellectual disability - relevance to risk management Race and Madness: Insights from the history of psychiatry and mental health. Impowering MHOs in forensic practice. Workforce capacity issues.