Great to welcome the Minister for Children & Social Care, Dawn Bowden MS, and Chief Social Care Officer for Wales, Albert Heaney CBE, pictured with BASW Cymru Director, Prof Sam Baron, to our annual conference.
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Thank you Prof Fiona Verity for a wonderful keynote speech at our annual conference: Beating Hearts - Progressing community social work and prevention.
Very well received and triggered much debate.
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We’re really pleased to be at the @BASW_Cymru#BASWCymru2025 conference. We support unpaid carers and train Social Workers to be @CarerAware to assist their work with carers. Looking forward to discussions on the future of social work in Wales.
Consultant social worker, Ian Rees, addressing our main plenary with his speech at our annual conference: To look to the future, we sometimes need to look to our past!
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Interactive session led by our Director, Prof Sam Baron and @BASW_UK ‘s Roseanna Palmer, at our annual conference
Themes:
- Sustainable investment for young people/ families
- More central hub ideas
- Invest in SWs
- LAs in Wales should produce a Children & Adult Charter
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Interactive session led by Director, Prof Sam Baron and @BASW_UK ‘s Roseanna Palmer, at our annual conf
Themes:
- Shared records across multi-disciplinary teams
- Adequate resourcing (prevention)
- Better workforce readiness
- Recognition of impact of poverty on communities
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Interactive session led by Director, Prof Sam Baron and @BASW_UK ‘s Roseanna Palmer, at our annual conf
Themes:
- Staff wellbeing (meaningful)
- Real co-production (we hear a lot of positive talk, but…)
- All SWs in Wales experience the same pathways and developments opps
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Interactive session led by Director Prof Sam Baron and @BASW_UK ‘s Roseanna Palmer, at our annual conference
Themes:
- Better £ support for student SWs
- Better multi-disciplinary team working
- Embrace the possibilities of AI
- Connect people and communities together
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Great to have the amazing Dr @Carolinehickma at our annual conference, delivering a keynote speech: Climate Breakdown and Child Safeguarding - Understanding the climate crisis as a child’s rights crisis.
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🎧 ICYMI: Our latest episode of Let's Talk Social Work was made to celebrate #WSWD2025 the theme of which was ‘Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Wellbeing’. Listen again below!
Apple Podcasts🔗https://t.co/sGm96TnTEU
Spotify🔗https://t.co/FkWIFHSVFx
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Due to HIGH demand, our annual conference (tomorrow) as now sold out!
You can still follow this event by using the hashtag #BASWCymru2025 on social media on Wednesday 19 March.
🎉Today we’re celebrating World Social Work Day! 🎉
📅This morning’s #SocialWorkWeek session will be looking at AI in social work and this afternoon, we’ll be discussing relationships and professional boundaries.
We’re looking forward to a great day!