Professor Samantha Baron

National Director for @BASW_Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Team BASW Cymru is excited to be at the @BASW_UK conference in Manchester! If you see us, come and say "Hi!"

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Team BASW Cymru busy preparing ahead of our annual conference (which has sold out) tomorrow!

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Looking forward to welcoming a sell out crowd for our annual conference later today!!!

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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.

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We are thrilled you could join us @CarersWales!!!

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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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A very warm welcome to @BASW_UK CEO @ruthallenonline to the BASW Cymru annual conference. Enjoy!

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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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That’s a close from our annual conference! An amazing day and lots more pictures tomorrow…

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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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🔹Dawn Bowden MS, Minister for Children and Social Care has a message of thanks to social workers across Wales. 🔹

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***SOLD OUT***SOLD OUT***SOLD OUT***SOLD OUT***

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.

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🎉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!