E-learning and Webinars

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

Looking for the webinars from across World Social Work Month 2021? Go to our "World Social Work Month 2021 Webinar Recordings" page

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.

• Older People: Covid-19 meets neoliberalism webinar
  As part of BASW's 50th Anniversary events, this webinar will explore the impact of neoliberalism on Social Work in the last 50 years and look at hopes and concerns for the future.

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.

• Peer Support - Evidence and Practice in Mental Health Recovery Webinar
  What people with lived experience think is important to their recovery journeys is often very different to what their health care professional thinks is important. This social work webinar will look at Alex Berry & Karin Machin's PhD research.

• Shaping Social Work Identity: An All-Ireland Study Webinar
  Hear about the research carried out by a unique partnership of the two professional bodies in Ireland, North and South, and the two social work regulators.

• Recognition Matters
  This project is based in the value of co-produced knowledge and reflective practice. Rather than making claims, we are seeking to raise the level of the debate about how we work with families where there is risk. We are interested in learning from practitioners and from families themselves.

• Exploring the impact of witnessing trauma in UK Social Workers

Professional Practice Webinar Series

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

• Series of three webinars embedding the capabilities statement's for social work employers working with autistic adults and adults with learning disability

  1. Capabilities Statements for Implementation Resources - Practitioner Tools webinar

     This webinar is for social work employers working with autistic adults and adults with learning disability

  2. Capabilities Statement Implementation Resources - Organisations Self-Assessment

     The organisation self-assessment tool has been developed so that organisations can set a benchmark of where they are in relation to the use of the Capabilities Statements and supporting resources in relation to social work with autistic adults, and adults with learning disability.

  3. Embedding the Capabilities Statements for people with learning disabilities and autistic adults webinar
     Resources for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
     The webinar will present the mapping documents and curriculum outlines for social work with autistic adults and people with learning disabilities which enable social workers to gain a specialist post-qualifying award.

• "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 Series with Siobhan Maclean
  1. 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!
  2. 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.
  3. Stepping Stones: Preparing for Placement Webinar
     This session will cover top tips for preparing for the student placement and making the most of supervision.
• Introduction to the Safe & Together™ Model
  Join Sarah McMillan, Professional Officer from the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) in a webinar that will give a brief overview of the foundational concepts of the Safe & Together Model™.
• The Mental Health Act, Race and Ethnicity: what are the key issues for AMHPs now?
  This webinar will explore assessments and consider issues for black and minority ethnic AMHPs as well as for the people they work with.

• Trauma Informed Practice Webinar
  The webinar will briefly discuss the 3 types of trauma and begin to consider how being 'trauma informed' can be integrated into existing models of evidence based social work.

• Creating Better Working Conditions for Social Work: using the BASW/SWU working conditions and wellbeing toolkit in your organisation This webinar will explore how social workers, supervisors, managers and organisational leaders can use the resources to make real differences in the workplace.

• Talk to SWU: work place issues webinar
  A chance to hear from the Social Workers' Union answering some of your questions.

• Deaf Awareness in Child Protection Social Work Webinar
  The webinar is designed for all social work practitioners, ranging from frontline to those in senior leadership roles.

• Human Rights Day: Social Work in the time of Covid

• The Re-making of Social Work and Child Protection Social Work during Covid-19

• 'Old ways through new doors': Proper social work in Covid-19 webinar

Homes Not Hospitals Webinar Series

1. BASW England and the Autism Alliance: Know Your Rights

   This initial webinar will include information and resources for individuals, families and social workers about the rights of autistic young people and adults, showing where things can go wrong and what action can be taken to prevent people reaching a crisis point.

2. "BASW England and the Autism Alliance: What a good care needs assessment looks like" webinar

   This webinar will include information and resources for people, families and social workers about the key elements to consider whilst undertaking a care needs assessment for autistic people

3. BASW & Autism Alliance: Working in Partnership with People and Families: part of the Homes not Hospitals webinar series
   This webinar explores the importance and value of working in partnership with people and families to enable young people and adults to be discharged from Assessment and Treatment Units as quickly as possible with the right accommodation and support in place.

Relationship Based Practice Week

• Time for Relationship-based Practice
  This webinar will explore why it is important for social workers to have more time for the children and families they support. 

Book Week Scotland 2020

• Social Work Past Present & Future: Changing Desks Webinar
  Join us for a webinar looking at how social work has changed over time.

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

• Holocaust Memorial Day - Using the past to inform future practice for social workers

• SASW Mental Health Officers Virtual Conference 2020

• 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

• Talk to SWU: workplace issues webinar

• Launch of Mapping Professional Capabilities Statements

• 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.