Our partnership with BASW

As part of our commitment to continuing to develop and deliver quality CPD options for Social Workers in the brave new world, we have partnered with BASW to offer a range of exciting new programmes as part of the associations Professional Development Education programme.

We have now confirmed the upcoming programmes and sessions for 2021/22, these will include:

• Newly Qualified Social Worker Programme: A UK-wide 6 session rolling training programme.
• Practice Educator Programme: A  UK-wide 4 session rolling training programme.
• Skills for Social Work Practice CPD Programme: Focusing on essential skills and critical reflection.
• BIA refreshers: For independent BIA's to gain the essential CPD they need to continue practicing.
• Creative Training: A Train-the-Trainers programme: Supporting sector trainers to engage with and deliver learning in a virtual world.
• Safeguarding Adults: Intercollegiate framework Level 4: named professionals
• Revisiting Values for Practicing AMHPs/MHOs/ASWs Training​​

BASW CPD Events Booking Calendar

Newly Qualified Social Worker (NQSW) and

​Practice Assessor/NQSW Assessor Programmes
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The first BASW/DBC-DCC-i NQSW sessions, delivered at the end of 2020, involved delegates from Torbay to Edinburgh, which would be difficult to achieve in a classroom without it costing lots of money and making at least 2 delegates very tired! 

The sessions provide a safe space for NQSW’s or Assessors to share experiences including ideas & solutions as well as being able to apply session topics (managing unseen risks, emotional resilience, evidence based assessment & decision-making, ethical dilemmas, cultural competence & effective case recordings) to their own cases and settings. Delegates report that not only have they taken away learning from each session but they have formed their own professional networks that allow them to continue accessing peer support and sharing knowledge, experience and resources. In fact, so far we haven’t found a drawback!

There will be four NQSW Cohorts running 2021/22 and the programmes are open to individual NQs or Assessors, or for organisations to secure smaller numbers of places than would be required for a comprehensive inhouse NQSW Programme.

NQSW CPD Events

• Session 1: Managing Unseen Risks
• Session 2: Professional Resilience
• Session 3: Effective Assessment & Evidence Informed Decisions 
  • Adult Social Care
  • Children & Families Social Care
• Session 4: Ethics, legal literacy and professional discretion
• Session 5: Cultural competency, diversity and inclusion
• Session 6: The right side of regulation: recording with care.

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Practice Assessor / NQSW Assessor CPD Events

• Session 1: Professional Development and Reflective Supervision
• Session 2: Direct observations, gathering feedback and reporting progress
• Session 3: Assessing the quality of evidence and addressing concerns
• Session 4: Wellbeing in the workplace and professional resilience

General CPD Programme
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• Supporting your learning and training in an interactive world​
• The Right Side of Regulation: Recording with Care​
• Effective Assessment and Evidence Informed Decision Making in Children and Families Social Care
• Effective Assessment and Evidence Informed Decision Making in Adult Social Care
• Safeguarding Adults Level 4: Named Professionals​
• Revisiting Values for Practicing AMHPs
• Utilising Systemic Family Therapy Tools in Safeguarding Children
• Understanding Child Attachment
• BIA Refresher
• Revisiong Values in Mental Health Social Work

Creative Trainer:

​Train-the-Trainer Programme 

New Dates TBC

More details to come! watch this space!
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BIA Refreshers:

​22nd September 2021 & 17th November 2021

​These one-day programmes are designed as a peer learning experience and continuing professional development refresher. Providing detailed updates and a reflective space to support BIA’s in practice and deliver the requirements of continued learning as required by the MCA/DoLS regulations for assessors.