Annual registration renewal is now open. Social workers must apply to renew their registration by 30 November. Log in to apply to renew.

Skip to main navigation

Skip to main content

Social Work Week 2026 programme

Social Work Week 2026 programme

Below is a list of the sessions hosted by Social Work England.

  • Recognising and celebrating social work: voices of experience, stories of impact
  • Classroom to courtroom: experiential learning for confident, competent social workers
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of social work
  • Embedding children's social care reform: professional development for child and family social workers
  • Rights, risks and rehabilitation: the role of social work in forensic services

  • World Social Work Day 2026

  • Learning from fitness to practise in England
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) guidance in social work: innovations from Brent
  • Transforming social work with people aged 65+
  • Advancing the anti-racist practice across the Eastern region
  • Evaluating a co-produced training package to equip social workers to work with older autistic people

  • Social workers and the Disclosure and Barring Service: working together to prevent harm to children and vulnerable adults
  • Regulation in a modern social work landscape
  • Speaking about the unspeakable: strengthening social work practice in palliative and end-of-life care

  • Development in practice education
  • Identifying and responding to child sexual abuse, what works and what matters from a child's perspective
  • Intimate lives matter: sex, relationships and the Care Act
  • Exploring the emerging use of AI in social work education and practice
Back to top