BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area.
These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
This group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of every month.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide a space to create and nurture valuable professional links with other self-employed social workers in your region.
Interested in finding out more about the branch? Join us for our Annual Members Meeting!
The Greater Manchester Branch has hosted a number of popular events in the last 12 months and has a strong committee who are looking forward to planning events and campaign activity over the coming 12 months. If you would like to find out more about what the branch does, would like to join the committee or just connect with other local BASW members, join us for our Annual Members Meeting.
If you have any issues registering for this session, please contact us via the form below.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area.
These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams. This group meets every month.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide a space to create and nurture valuable professional links with other self-employed social workers in your region.
This online forum is for NQSWs, social workers looking for their first employed role in England or a change in role and those looking to return to the profession after a career break.
This online forum is for social workers looking for their first employed social work role in England or for those who are looking to return to the profession after a career break. You may also find the session helpful if you have been in the same role for a long time and are now applying for alternative social work jobs.
Come and join the BASW Cymru team for an informal drop-in session where you can meet us and we can get to know you and find out what you want your association to do for you!
We want get to know you, to understand how we can support you, and what the key issues are for you.
This session will be relaxed and informal - if you can only spare 5 minutes, that's fine with us - we just want to meet you!
Once you book on a joining link will be sent to you - but if there are any issues with the link, please email: cymru@basw.co.uk
Our 80:20 campaign advocates for social workers to spend the majority of their time working directly with children, families and adults rather than on administrative and process driven tasks.
The campaign is an opportunity to create effective change by putting relationships in practice at the heart of what we do. As part of ongoing work through BASW England’s 80:20 campaign, a suite of Top Tips resources has been created with BASW members, people with lived experience and key stakeholders from across the sector.
Section (s.)135 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA 1983) enables an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) to request for a magistrate to issue a warrant which authorises a constable to enter a premises, using force if necessary, for the purpose of either removing to or keeping a person at a place of safety. There are a number of reasons why such a warrant may be obtained and executed and why, on the whole, their use has been increasing over the years.
The Department of Health is currently consulting to gather stakeholders’ views on the commencement of sections 9(4)(a) and 12 of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (MCA). These provisions relate to ‘Acts of Restraint’. The Department’s consultation will also inform development of an accompanying Code of Practice.
We want to hear from members to ensure BASW NI’s response to the consultation reflects your views and concerns.
BASW Independents Local Networks provide an excellent opportunity to build professional links with other self-employed social workers in your area. These meetings are currently virtual and held on MS Teams.
Kate Cuthbertson (Coach Supervisor, BASW Professional Support Service) will be joining to discuss what the Social Work Professional Support Service can offer you, as an independent social worker.
This group meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month every quarter.
Are you a social worker or social work leader, currently working within an NHS Trust or other health organisation and looking for opportunities to connect with other social workers? If you would like to come together with peers working in a wide variety of settings outside of statutory local authority social care, this forum is for you. The forum will provide opportunities to explore the strengths and challenges this poses and identify ways of maintaining social work identity and promote parity of esteem for career progression and CPD.
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.
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.