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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
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