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This workshop will support social workers to understand how diversity shapes the lives and experiences of carers and will explore how practitioners can enhance their cultural competence in the work of assessment and support planning for carers.

Caring occurs in all communities and all kinds of relationships, and while there are shared and common features in the experience of all carers, there more are also distinctive issues can arise for specific groups of carers when they seek formal support.

Speaker: Liz Howard, Professional Officer with BASW and Qualified and Registered Social Worker.

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the horrendous injustice, discrimination and oppression faced by black and minority ethnic people on a daily basis around the globe. As a society, we fall dreadfully short of the mark when it comes to ensuring equality more – and unfortunately, social work is not exempt. A real commitment to anti-racism within social work is a constant, ongoing process and so this presentation is designed only as a brief overview.

Speaker: Wayne Reid, Professional Officer, Social Worker and Anti-racism Visionary for BASW England.

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the horrendous injustice, discrimination and oppression faced by black and minority ethnic people on a daily basis around the globe. As a society, we fall dreadfully short of the mark when it comes to ensuring equality more – and unfortunately, social work is not exempt. A real commitment to anti-racism within social work is a constant, ongoing process and so this presentation is designed only as a brief overview.

This conference examines the impact of COVID-19 on homelessness. It will feature speakers who will examine front line responses, policy, partnership working and what local authorities can do.

Introduction Professor Lynn Dobbs, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of London Metropolitan University.

Speakers confirmed:

• Dom Gates, Director of Services at Providence Row.
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• Faye Greaves, Head of Policy and Practice at the Centre for Homelessness Impact. The Centre examines what works in terms of policy and practice.
• Louise Mitchell, Councillor in Waltham Forest and is Cabinet Member for Housing and Homelessness Prevention.
• Meg Rainey, Senior Social Worker in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. She has considerable experience of partnership working to prevent and address homelessness.

Panel discussion with speakers and current and former students chaired by Chris Lane, Head of Social Work for the School of Social Professions of London Metropolitan University.

Step Up to Social Work is a Department for Education (DfE) initiative which aims to increase the number of high quality social workers by supporting graduates and career changers to start a new career in social work, working with vulnerable children, young people and families.

For dates, times and more information, see document below.

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London Metropolitan University is hosting its 1st Annual Employability Conference, and this year it will be a virtual event!

The event is aimed at all our final year social work students and recent alumni and will cover:

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• Interview ‘Do’s’ and ‘Dont’s’
• Interview and ASYE processes
• CV writing workshops
• Social Work roles in the private, voluntary and independent sectors job opportunities and more...!

*Students have the chance to chat with employers between 12 pm - 2 pm

Facilitator: Greg Ryan, Senior Social Work lecturer at London Metropolitan University.

Carer harm occurs when carers experience violence or become subject to controlling or coercive behaviour, either on an incidental or systematic basis, from the person for whom they care. Many Social Workers will encounter examples of carer harm in the course of their practice, but this more can at times be a difficult and sensitive issue to name and address with those concerned in the context of Social Care provision.

Facilitator: Kevin J Brazant MA, FRSA, FHEA, CeP

This seminar explores the challenge of promoting positive father involvement where there is historic DV and abuse and introduces a controversial form of abuse called ‘Parental Alienation’ (PA) which is an extreme form of parental gate keeping. This session intends to also consider issues of historic more domestic violence and maltreating fathers as part of family relationships. This provides a space for exploration of practice issues when working with families caught in cycles of domestic violence and abuse.

Facilitator: Mark Wheeler MA, MSW, PGCE, FHEA; Acting Head of Social Work at the University of East London.

Work in social service settings is gratifying yet can impact our person in unhealthy ways. Current social climates often exacerbate existing tensions causing emotive professional situations to illicit feelings of isolation, detachment, and/or distrust. This dynamic more can manifest not only in the service user/service relationship but also between colleagues. This session will apply the concept: personality disorder to profession contexts and explore the ways in which the concept can help of hinder progress towards shared goals.

This webinar will explore triangulation of assessment in the virtual world. This will involve considering questions like - How do you undertake a direct observation of virtual practice? What should this look (and feel) like? How does contemporary practice link with the assessment requirements in social work practice? What are some of the barriers and enablers in terms assessment for practice educators? more The specific issue about how to have a ‘courageous conversation’ and provide feedback to students in virtual spaces will be explored.

This will consider the impact of current ways of working on student learning. What should a contemporary practice-learning curriculum look like? Drawing on traditional learning theories we will explore how practice educators can support student social workers to learn and develop their practice when placement learning environments look so different. Issues around situated learning and arranging more learning opportunities to help students demonstrate the PCF domains will be addressed. The session will include feedback from students about learning in the contemporary climate. The perennial learning issues of theory and practice and reflective practice will be considered in terms of changed ways of working.

Building more on the first webinar, this session will consider what a good reflexive supervision looks like in contemporary practice. How do you provide emotionally supportive supervision in a virtual space? Once again, the session will draw on feedback from students. Some short clips of reflective supervision will be shared with some interactive elements. Practical hints and tips will provided to enable practice educators to add to their current supervision toolkit.