Coming up................
08.09.26 Polarising Politics: Guidance for social workers navigating challenging political workplaces
Join us for this 1hour lunchtime webinar where BASW will be launching our 'Polarising Politics' guide for social workers in this webinar, focusing on how you balance your legal and statutory duties as a social worker, and how you can advocate for the causes you believe in as a private citizen outside of the workplace.
24.09.26 Hair Testing: What Social Workers need to know
Join us for this 1 hour lunchtime webinar led by Dr Simon Flacks will seek to answer these and other questions. There will also be an opportunity to discuss your experiences of working with cases where hair stand testing has played a significant role.
01.10.26 Event for UN Day of Older Persons
To mark the UN day of older people, BASW’s special interest group on Social Work and Ageing invites you to this upcoming event.
We will present learning from research, practice and lived experience on how social workers uphold rights in later life. We will focus on social work’s role in empowering people who face barriers. There will be time for reflection and discussion on the positive difference social workers make.
20.10.26 Anti-Racist Practice in Social Work: Learning from IMPACT’s Networks
How can social workers translate anti-racist principles into everyday practice and build stronger relationships with diverse communities? Join us for this 1 hour lunchtime webinar hosted by Suzie Crowther & Cina Aissa,
21.10.26 The Social Work Coaching Network
Social Work Coaching Network (SWCN)
Are you a social work professional interested in coaching?
With more understanding of the value of coaching for social workers and various research projects currently looking at the impact of coaching for social workers, this is a hot topic.
18.11.26 Working with families in recurrent care proceedings
This session traces where the idea of ‘the cycle of deprivation’ came from, why it was discredited within four years of being coined, and why it survives anyway. It looks at what happens in practice when we aim at the wrong target: how a system ends up marking its own homework, and how independent assessors are instructed to answer a question that was never the right one. It examines the phrase ‘failed to engage’, and what happens to it under cross examination in the court.