Every social worker knows how exciting the first year of professional practice can be – but also how daunting and hugely challenging it is too. We also know that solid foundations are essential for building strong and secure futures. Getting the right structure and support at the very start of your career will help you become a better social worker. Quality supervision, effective monitoring, manageable workloads and strong team working are all essential for our development as social workers – especially at the point of qualification – and that’s where BASW Cymru comes in…….
Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.
Since the implementation of the Care Act 2014, working with adults who may be at risk of harm and undertaking safeguarding adults’ enquiries has seen a shift in emphasis from process to personalised responses.
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.
Share your experiences of studying or starting your social work career in Scotland as a new graduate - good or bad- with fellow students and NQSWs. Let’s reflect on topics and work on solutions in a supportive informal environment. All welcome!
The mindfulness-based social work and self-care (MBSWSC) programme focusses on improving social work practice and self-care. It is a programme which has developed a strong evidence base for its effectiveness at reducing stress, emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation of service users, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and improving well-being and a range of social work practice skills and competencies.
Join the BASW England Children and Families Thematic Group for these lunchtime sessions in conversation with specialists across the sector. The BASW Children and Families Thematic Group address issues that arise, concerning social work with children and families, within England. Group members hold expertise across social work policy, practice, research, and education. In these lunchtime seminars group members will be in conversation with specialists from across the sector. BASW members are warmly invited to join in the conversations.
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.
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.