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BASW Professional Officer Gavin Moorghen speaks with Julia Palfreyman (social worker) and Ruth Hawkins (family law solicitor) to discuss the social worker role with children involved in family court proceedings. This podcast is of particular interest to children and families practitioners and managers and anyone wishing to apply relationship-based social work. See more on 80-20 campaign via the BASW website http://bit.ly/8020campaign

Join Keri O'Riordan, BASW England Professional Officer on the latest podcast discussing digital technologies, digital professionalism and online safeguarding with guest Claudia Megele. In this podcast we asked Claudia Megele a national expert on digital ethics, cyber-trauma and digital safeguarding about the implications of social media and digital technologies for social work and social care practice and the future of safeguarding, digital professionalism and digital practice in social work. Claudia is also the national Chair of the Principal Children and Families Social Work network and the Head of Quality Assurance and Practice at Hertfordshire Children’s Services. Claudia has researched online safeguarding as well as digital ethics and digital professionalism for more than a decade and has published her work and research including articles in peer reviewed articles such as “Theorizing Twitter Chat” and books such as “Safeguarding Children and Young People Online” (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Safeguarding-children-young-people-online/dp/1447331826) and her upcoming book “Social Media and Social Work: Implications and Opportunities for Practice” (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/144732739X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0).

Join Gavin Moorghen, BASW England Professional Officer on the latest podcast discussing case recordings in social work with guest Lisa Pascoe, Deputy Director of Social Care Policy at Ofsted. Lisa oversees the development of Ofsted's inspection frameworks in social care; covering both Local Authorities and the rest of social care. This includes (and is not limited to); children's homes, independent fostering agencies, voluntary adoption agencies. This podcast also talks of BASW England's ongoing 80-20 campaign which is focussed on relationship-based practice with children and families. See more via the website, bit.ly/8020campaign BASW also have a Twibbon campaign where you can pledge your support for relationship-based practice in social work and the 80-20 campaign with a simple click. Pledge your support here; https://twibbon.com/support/8020-campaign-pledge

Winners and nominees from the SASW Awards share their views on the key to building relationships in social work – and the rewards and challenges of being a social worker

Winners and nominees from the SASW Awards share their views on the key to building relationships in social work – and the rewards and challenges of being a social worker

Winners and nominees from the SASW Awards share their views on the key to building relationships in social work – and the rewards and challenges of being a social worker

Winners and nominees from the SASW Awards share their views on the key to building relationships in social work – and the rewards and challenges of being a social worker

Join Gavin Moorghen, BASW England Professional Officer on the latest podcast discussing relationship-based practice with Gillian Ruch. Gillian is a Professor of Social Work and works in the Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex. She teaches and researches in the areas of child care social work and relationship-based and reflective practice and is committed to enhancing the wellbeing of children, families and practitioners. This podcast also talks of BASW England's ongoing 80-20 campaign which is focussed on relationship-based practice with children and families. See more via the website including more information on the KITBAG mentioned in the podcast. http://bit.ly/8020campaign

Listen in to episode 9 with Luke Geoghegan, Head of Policy and Research (BASW) and special guest Amanda Taylor-Beswick who is a registered social worker, Senior Lecturer of Social Work and acknowledged expert in social work and digital technology. Amanda has been thinking, writing and teaching about it for 10 years now. You can inform the BASW/SCIE survey mentioned in this podcast via https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/digital-capabilities-social-work Accompanying resources; - From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet – John Naughton https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gutenberg-Zuckerberg-Really-About-Internet/dp/0857384260 - Turner, D (2019, June 5). ‘App’- lying the digital in social work… Or why we should not be teaching the same way for 20 years [Blog Post] - Turner, D , Kirkland, D , Landmann,M (2019) Making ideas “app”-en: The creation and evolution of a digital mobile resource to teach social work interviewing skills Social Work Education https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02615479.2019.1611758 - Machines Like Me: Ian McEwan https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machines-Like-Me-Ian-McEwan/dp/1787331660 @SWBookGroup - More about Dr Tarsem Singh Cooner can be found here https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/social-policy/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=4781 - There is a 31 year literature in social and technologies that can be found here: http://www.husita.org/about-us/ If you want to find out more about Amanda's work you can follow her on Twitter @amltaylor66 https://twitter.com/AMLTaylor66 or on her LinkedIn space https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-taylor-beswick-b3810647/

SASW National Director, Alistair, interviews Professor Lena Dominelli on Green Social Work. Lena Dominelli, Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Academician in the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences, is an experienced educator, practitioner and researcher and has published extensively in the fields of sociology, social policy and social work.

Join BASW Head of Policy and Research, Luke Geoghegan, who is joined by Dr Louise Bunce(Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer from Oxford Brookes University) and Jill Childs (Experienced social worker, Principal Lecturer and Programme Lead of Social Work from Oxford Brookes University). Read the referenced article on "Emotional Intelligence and Self-Determined Behaviour Reduce Psychological Distress: Interactions with Resilience in Social Work Students in the UK" via BJSW online. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz008.

Join us for the BASWTalk Podcast discussing the Adoption Enquiry; one year on. Freelance journalist Louise Tickle chairs a panel discussion including BASW chief executive Ruth Allen, the author’s co-author Professor Brid Featherstone and former local authority adoption team manager, Jon Dudley.

As part of the 16 days of activism against domestic abuse, Professional Officer Sarah McMillan from our Scotland Office met with Nel Whiting of Scottish Women’s Aid, to discuss how best social workers can support victims and survivors.

Luke Geoghegan, Head of Policy and Research at BASW catches up with Professor Brigid Featherstone on her new book. Brid is an experienced social worker and social work academic and together with Anna Gupta, Kate Morris and Sue White is the author of a new book ‘Protecting Children: A Social Model’, published by Policy Press.

Join BASW Chief Executive, Ruth Allen, to discuss the recent report by Ofsted on 'Neglected older children missed' with guest speaker, Yvette Stanley, National Director of Social Care for Ofsted. Find the report at bit.ly/neglected-older-children

Listen in to Episode 2 with guest speakers Paul Bywaters (University of Huddersfield), Kate Morris (University of Sheffield) and Brid Featherstone (University of Huddersfield). This podcast summarises the UK 4 nation Child Welfare Inequalities Research Project. The project was focussed on the relationships between poverty, deprivation and social work decisions to intervene in children's lives; specifically in relation to care and protection proceedings. We encourage listeners to refer to the accompanying supporting resources here; https://www.basw.co.uk/resources/child-welfare-inequalities-resource-sheet We also welcome feedback on the podcast in this short survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BR8PV8L

A recording of the BASW Chair Hustings Webinar from the 9 April 2018. The BASW Chair Hustings was a chance to ask BASW's three candidates Donna Peach, Hilary Tompsett and Gerry Nosowska questions to help BASW Members use their vote to choose their next BASW Chair.

BASW has launched our first ever podcast where BASW Chief Executive, Ruth Allen, talks with Siobhan Maclean about her new book "Share: A New Model for Social Work" and student, Clare Bailey.