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Social Work Week 2024 Programme: Friday 22 March

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Making the invisible, visible – improving the approach to equality, diversity in safeguarding reviews for adults and children (10am to 11am)

This session will consider the barriers that safeguarding reviews and reviewers face when completing the review process and presenting findings.

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Kinship care: hidden heroes (bitesize session) (11:30am to 12pm)

This session highlights the increasing number of kinship placements in the UK, how vital they are, and the challenges faced by kinship carers.

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Practice education in England: a national scoping review (1pm to 2pm)

This session provides an overview of key findings from Social Work England’s commissioned research in 2023 on social work practice education in England, presented by members of Social Work England and the University of East Anglia.

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Seeing beyond disability: a co-produced teaching session exploring the social and medical model of disability in anti-discriminatory practice (2pm to 3pm)

A co-delivered webinar from people with lived and learned perspectives, from the Birmingham City University. The session will deliver an example of a good practice of co-production in teaching.

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Closing session: exploring the value of data in social work (3pm to 4pm)

This session provides an overview of how Social Work England utilise data, outlining our commitment to harnessing data and insight to drive and inform regulation practices.

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Sessions delivered independently

This year we can really see the breadth of social work come to life with over 40 sessions being hosted independently across the week. Click here to see the full list of sessions delivered independently across the week.

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Our 6 professional standards are set out in blocks in 3 columns by 2 rows.

The professional standards are listed as follows:

1. Promote the rights, strengths and wellbeing of people, families and communities.

2. Establish and maintain the trust and confidence of people.

3. Be accountable for the quality of my practice and the decisions I make.

4. Maintain my continuing professional development.

5. Act safely, respectfully and with professional integrity.

6. Promote ethical practice and report concerns.

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