Events

Health and Safety Training

With Janet Newsham from Hazards

The training is free and open to all SWU members.

This training is in two parts with the first session taking place on the 1st July at 10:30am. Please ensure you book a place for both sessions separately. If you need any help with booking a place on this event please email joanne.marciano@swu-union.org.uk

What You'll Learn

10th July: 9am till 4pm

University of Wolverhampton

Speakers and presenters:

Sarah McClinton, Chief Social Worker for Adults and Mental Health Social Work

Ruth Allen, CEO, British Association of Social Workers (BASW)

Susan Dobson, Professional Officer at the Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW)

Linda Harms-Smith, Research Associate and Lecturer in Social Work

Echo Yeung, Associate Professor in Research in Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire

PLUS - a letter of support from Janet Daby, MP Lewisham East

This session will be delivered by Child Sexual Abuse survivor and founder of The Flying Child, Sophie Olson, and consultant children’s social worker Sarah Pritchard as part of The Flying Child 'Side By Side CSA' training. They will use the powerful tool of storytelling to illustrate the child’s experience leading into the survivor’s journey, and the social harms faced.

Part of BASW's 2024-25 NQSW CPD Programme

***Session for students & NQSWs only*** Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.

Relationship Based Practice in Multi Agency Contexts meets the following National Standards:

Part of BASW's Taught Skills Development Programme

Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.

This one-day programme is designed as a peer learning experience and refresher, providing detailed case law/practice updates and a reflective space to support those working in-depth with MCA and DoLS processes, BIA colleagues in practice, authorisers, and mental health assessors to explore these current issues in practice.

Part of BASW's 2024-25 NQSW CPD Programme

***Session for students & NQSWs only*** Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.

Relationship Based Practice in Multi Agency Contexts meets the following National Standards:

Social Work in Child Protection: Professional Practice Programme

Prepare to be inspired with highly practical, research-based training that will equip you with ideas to implement in your social work practice.

A session uniquely designed and delivered by Siobhan Maclean, an experienced social worker, practice educator and consultant who has written widely around social work theory and written reflection.

Delivered virtually using MS Teams, with limited group sizes to allow for full interaction with the trainer.

This programme will explore:

- Journeys in social work practice

- Using the ‘what? why? and how?’ framework in management practice

- What leadership and management mean in social work

- Key skills in leadership and management

Part of BASW's General Taught Skills Programme

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.

Research findings and practice experience provide compelling evidence that animal abuse in the context of domestic abuse is a tactic of coercive control and an act of animal cruelty (Arkow, 2014; Barrett et al, 2017; DeGue et al, 2009; Fitzgerald et al, 2019; Newberry, 2017; Richards, 2009, Wakeham, 2025). Although the link between domestic abuse and animal abuse is uncontested, it is an issue that is often not translated into practice.

From the Frontline: Activism, Action and the Future of Social Work

Join us for this year’s flagship SASW Conference, bringing together social workers, students, educators, and policymakers from across Scotland and beyond to reflect, share and mobilise for change.

Part of BASW’s Practice Educator & Practice Assessor CPD Programme Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams. Suitable for experienced Practice Educators – (PEPS / PE Assessors, PEPS / PE Mentors, PEPS / PE Coordinators, Practice Mentor Assessors) and experienced Practice Assessors (ASYE Assessors, NQSW Assessors, PAs of NQSWs, PAs of ASYEs, Supervisors of NQSWs, Supervisors of ASYEs).

This course will focus on English and Welsh legislation and case examples but the principles will be relevant to delegates nationwide.

Course Outline:

Part of BASW's Taught Skills Development Programme

Delivered by BASW’s accredited training partner DCC-i via MS Teams.

This one-day programme is designed as a peer learning experience and refresher, providing detailed case law/practice updates and a reflective space to support those working in-depth with MCA and DoLS processes, BIA colleagues in practice, authorisers, and mental health assessors to explore these current issues in practice.