Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Branch Event with speaker Dr Rajani Kalepu, Pediatric Consultant and Safeguarding Lead at Royal Derby Hospital

Join students and social workers from across the region for the opportunity to hear from Dr Rajani Kalepu, a Paediatric Consultant and Safeguarding Lead from the Royal Derby Hospital. 

This seminar will focus on the signs and symptoms of abuse, elaborating on different type of fractures and factitious disorder. It will explore the signs and symptoms of abuse, including an in-depth exploration of various types of fractures and a detailed look at factitious disorder.

• Participants will learn to recognise the often-subtle signs of physical and emotional abuse and gain insights into different fractures, understanding what they could signify in an abuse context. The complexities of factitious disorder will be explored from identification to intervention.
• The seminar will feature a Q&A session.
• This seminar is ideal for social worker, healthcare professionals, educators, and anyone committed to safeguarding community welfare, providing essential knowledge and tools to better serve and protect those at risk.

This event will support networking and practitioner wellbeing.

It is a hybrid branch event open to students, social workers, BASW members and non-members studying, living, or working in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire area.

Agenda:

6:00pm: Start and light refreshments

6:20pm: BASW update

6:30pm: Speaker: Dr Rajani Kalepu from 6.30pm

8:00pm: Close

Reasons for Building a Branch:

By attending this branch meeting you are helping to create a Social Work movement in your local area.

What being part of a branch can offer you:

• CAREER: Get involved in career building activities.
• INFLUENCE: Influence local and national social work policy.
• NETWORK: Meet like-minded practitioners.
• DEVELOP: Design CPD opportunities based on your needs.

BASW members who are unable to view a personalised message above are encouraged to log-in prior to booking for this event to ensure professional development is recorded within your membership record & to ensure you are able to attend for free.

Taster session available for non-members of BASW.* Non-members of BASW keen to learn more on the benefits of membership and receive updates on the valuable work we do are welcome to sign-up to our communication updates here. When you sign-up, you’ll automatically receive a registration code that can be used to waive the admin fee. 

*Subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply.