Launch Event: BASW Overseas Qualified Social Worker (OQSW) Programme

We're tremendously excited to shortly be launching a brand new CPD programme, created for social workers who have trained overseas and have now moved / are planning to move to work in the UK.

2 packages will be available:

• OQSW Self-directed learning - Practice Handbook & Workbook
• OQSW Peer Supported Development Programme

Co-produced with Durham University, The Hong Kong Social Work Action Network & BASW’s Diaspora Special Interest Group, we are delighted to soon offer learning materials and a programme of support, underpinned by an ethical framework, for colleagues coming into UK social work posts. 

Access more details on the learning packages here

We'd love you to join us at this launch event, where you can find out more about:

The need for this training programme - Janet Walker, Visiting Professor of International Social Work at the University of Lincoln, Chair of BASW International Committee, will give a brief overview of the drivers for this programme

The value of overseas social workers - Duc Tran, Chair of BASW Diaspora Special Interest Group

Current challenges - Dr Sui-Ting Kong, Associate Professor in Social Work, Durham University, will on map out knowledge, policy and professional training gaps to support overseas qualified social workers using Hong Kong social workers as a case. Hei Chow, Senior Community Organiser, UK Welcomes Refugees, Lead of Hong Kong Social Workers Action Network focus on the lived experiences of Hong Kong qualified social workers.

Introducing BASW's Overseas Qualified Social Worker Programme - Jane Shears, Head of Professional Development, BASW

With time for questions with a panel rich in experts by experience. To include our speakers joined by Ioana Plesa, Social Work Mentor Coach.

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