This online lunch time session will provide an opportunity for members to learn more about BASW UK activities, your membership benefits, advice and representation and how you can access CPD, be involved in our campaigns, consultations, networks and special interest groups.
Your Professional Association connects you with other social workers working in diverse settings across different nations at different stages of career pathways.
Human rights and social justice are core social work values and together we can promote the voice of social work and the BASW Code of Ethics.
Section 46 of the Children Act 1989 is the relatively little-known power whereby police may ‘remove the child to suitable acccomodation’ or prevent ’the child’s removal from any hospital, or other place, in which he is then being accommodated’. Despite being little known, research based on FOI requests has shown that this power was used perhaps 12,000 times in one year. This session will explore how the power works both in legislation and practice, how it fits with other legal powers in the Act, and the challenges and opportunities of working with Section 46.