E-learning and Webinars

BASW offers a number of e-learning and webinar* opportunities to contribute to your professional development throughout the year.

BASW 50 Webinars

• BASW UK 50th anniversary virtual festival
  The two-day festival marked BASW over 50 years and was a unique opportunity to explore social work past and present and look to the future across five live sessions. 

• BASW 50th: Talking Together webinar
  Hear short talks from inspiring members on topics that link our current situation of pandemic and lock down with our experiences and history as social workers, helping us think about how our past, present and future are connected, and leading up to our 50th birthday in June.

Success in Social Work Webinars

• The Invisible Victims Webinar
  Join guest speakers Jahnine Davis on Complex Locations and Jade Levell on Understanding how children experience childhood domestic violence/abuse and gang-involvement, using music as an interview tool.

• Welcome to the Profession! webinar
  A BASW NI Webinar for Newly Qualified Social Workers in Northern Ireland

• Fabricated and Induced Illness Webinar
  This webinar will be led by a team of experts, each of whom has hands-on experience of working with parents who have been accused of Fabricated and Induced Illness. 

• Launch of the capabilities statements toolkits webinar
  This webinar was to mark the launch of the capabilities statements toolkits commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.

• Specialist Employment and Regulatory Support for Social Workers: BASW's Advice and Representation Service and the Social Workers Union
  This webinar will provide a little background about what BASW's Advice and Representation Service offers, how it has developed and how it is operating under current conditions during Covid-19.

• Using Best Evidence in Social Work with Adults with a Learning Disability Webinar
  This webinar was co-produced with National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

• Social Work in Times of Disasters: A Green Social Work Perspective Webinar with guest Professor Lena Dominelli

• Digital Technology and Social Work Webinar

• Contemporary Issues in Mental Health Webinar

• The Researching Practitioner Webinar - with Dr Philippa Waterhouse and Dr Sarah Vicary from the Open University.

Professional Practice Webinar Series

• Introducing the BASW Professional Support Service – supporting the profession in practice webinar

• Capabilities Statements for Implementation Resources - Practitioner Tools webinar
  This webinar is for social work employers working with autistic adults and adults with learning disability

• "Social work post pandemic:How can we address the outcomes gap for BAME people?" webinar
  This webinar seeks to take a holistic perspective to identify the differences within criminal justice, social work education, social care services and in housing and the labour market and, to discuss how these can be remedied.

• Family Group Conferencing (FGCs) and Relationship-based Practice in Social Work
  This webinar will address how social workers can draw on the principles of FGCs as models of relationship-based approaches to decision-making.

• Domestic abuse and social work webinar

  Join Sarah McMillan, Professional Officer at SASW along with Susie Dalton, Children and Young People's Policy Officer at Scottish Women's Aid, Anna Mitchell, UK Lead at the Safe & Together Institute and Rachael Barnes, Social Worker at Safer Families Edinburgh for a webinar centred around social work practice where there is domestic abuse.

• Stepping Stones: From Student to Social Worker Webinar
  Siobhan Maclean's Top Tips

  Are you newly qualified or a student social worker? This webinar is especially for you!

• Stepping Stones: Supporting Your Newly Qualified Social Worker Webinar
  Siobhan Maclean's Top Tips
  The webinar will help you understand your role as a practice assessor and take you through supporting the learning journey.

Covid-19 Webinars

Connecting with Carers in Covid Series

This series of three webinars is produced jointly by BASW, RCN and RCPsych (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health).

• Part 1: ‘Connecting with Carers in Covid’: Listening to carers and family members, identifying what helps
  This is the first in a three part series developed jointly by people with lived experience of family caring, BASW, the RCN and RCPsych.

• Part 2: Connecting with Carers in Covid: the principles of good professional practice

• Part 3: Connecting with Carers in Covid; Professionals supporting carers: good practice, rights and entitlements

Other Covid-19 webinars

• Social Work and Corona Virus: Staying Connected in Crisis webinar
  This webinar will provide an opportunity to hear from a range of speakers and panellists, highlighting the challenges, what’s worked and what should change in the future. The webinar will include service users as well as input from Action for Children, BASW NI, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, CLARE and the NI Social Care Council.

• Working with Autistic People Through Covid-19 and Beyond webinar
  This webinar hears from social work and experts by experience on working with Autistic People through Covid-19 and beyond.

• Transitioning into frontline practice webinar
  The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact the social work profession including an increased consideration for qualified social workers who have not been practicing in local authority frontline services to return to this area of practice. 

• Covid-19 webinar for frontline AMHPs

• Covid-19 webinar for AMHP Leads and Principal Social Workers

Listen again social work webinars

• Self Care Mental Health Toolkit – Wellbeing & Work
  This webinar is facilitated by the University of Derby in collaboration with BASW Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire branch

• Co-Production webinar

• Understanding People Affected by Brain Injury: Practice Guidance for Social Workers webinar

• Social Work with Adults Who Have Learning Disabilities: Developing the Capabilities Statement and CPD Pathway webinar 

• Ethical Decision Making in Adult Social Care 

• Mental Capacity Act 

• Understanding and implementing the changes to the Professional Capabilities Framework

• Guide to renewing your HCPC registration 

• One foot in the door: Getting your first job in social work

Digital Summit

• BASW held a Digital Summit on 1 October 2019 to mark the launch of the Professional Development Programme, find the recordings for the three webinars below along with links to the accompanying learning materials;

  1. Movement for Social Approaches in Mental Health webinar
     This webinar looks at social approaches in mental health and refers to current research and evidence.

  2. The First 1000 Days webinar
     The Alcohol and Other Drugs Special Interest Group discusses impact of alcohol and other drugs between conception and aged 2 years.

  3. "What next for social work with older people?" webinar
     This webinar considers the importance of social work with older people, why this area of work needs particular expertise, and current developments in adult social care that impact on social work with older people.

80-20 Campaign webinar series - Relationship-based practice: working with children and families

• Part 1: Communicating and Engaging with Children webinar

• Part 2: Reflective practice webinar

• Part 3: Child Sexual Exploitation: A rights and relationship-based approach webinar

• Part 4: Relationship-based practice: What is it and how does it work? Webinar

See more on BASW's campaign activity in the Campaign Section

Take a look at some of our other webinars available below.

*BASW produces webinars to provide a platform for a range of perspectives across the social work sector. It does not necessarily reflect the views of BASW.