This training is aimed at practitioners working directly with women, to feel more confident in identifying gambling-related harms, and how to respond and signpost for support. During this training, we will cover the gambling-related harms women experience, either from their gambling or someone else’s. We also cover how Domestic Abuse and Economic Abuse within the sphere of Gambling and there is an opportunity to consider a Domestic Homicide Review To register for this training, please follow this link Women , Domestic Abuse and Gambling Related Harms CPD Accredited Training Tickets, Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite
Trigger warning: Please note that this session will explore abuse themes from personal experiences which some may find upsetting. In addition, the lads speak from the heart which will involve swearing. Presented and facilitated by “Lads like us” – 2 lads from Manchester, sharing their lived experience with professionals and organisations, raising awareness of being trauma informed and in tuned with the impacts of trauma responses. “Our journey started with a mission dedicated to informing the practice of professionals and organisations that had failed us as children and adults. We had to make something positive out of our lived experience, chaos, and anger, in order to thrive. Shouting and screaming about failures and trying to hold people to account made us mentally ill. We needed to adopt a new approach that would help “ Us and them” that was our first problem. In order to break barriers between ” Us and Them ” we needed to work out a way to weaponize the empathy of professionals to allow them to see that the majority of the behaviours displayed by service users/clients/citizens/people are a direct result of some kind of trauma experienced throughout their lives. These people we refer to are lads like us, from similar estates we grew up on, that are repeatedly presenting at mental health units, substance misuse services, prison and probation” To register for this event please follow this link Lads Like Us – Trauma Informed Training Tickets, Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite
Social Work England will be providing a presentation which provides an overview of the Fitness to Practise system. By the end of the session participants will: Be clearer on the role of Social Work England’s Fitness to Practise system and legal requirements. Have a better understanding of the expectations of employers in the fitness to practise process. Have had an opportunity to ask questions. To register for this event please follow this link Fitness to Practice for All Tickets, Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
These masterclasses are online events from the partner agencies in the Greater Manchester Social Work Academy, supporting the professional development of our Practice Educator community in Greater Manchester. In this masterclass we will cover: Overview of process for stage 1 Importance of Continuous Professional Development in Practice Education. Portfolio requirements Demonstrating capabilities against PEPS. (Practice Educator Standards) Sourcing opportunities to demonstrate Practice Education capabilities To register for this masterclass please follow this link Practice Educator Masterclass – Preparation for Stage 2 Tickets, Tue 4 Mar 2025 at 13:30 | Eventbrite
Social Work England will be providing a presentation which provides an overview of the Fitness to Practise system. By the end of the session participants will: Be clearer on the role of Social Work England’s Fitness to Practise system and legal requirements. Have a better understanding of the expectations of employers in the fitness to practise process. Have had an opportunity to ask questions. To register for this event please follow this link Fitness to Practice for Managers Tickets, Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
These masterclasses are online events from the partner agencies in the Greater Manchester Social Work Academy, supporting the professional development of our Practice Educator community in Greater Manchester. In this masterclass we will cover: Overview of process for stage 1 Importance of Continuous Professional Development in Practice Education. Portfolio requirements Demonstrating capabilities against PEPS. (Practice Educator Standards) Sourcing opportunities to demonstrate Practice Education capabilities To register for this event follow this link Practice Educator Masterclass – Preparation for Stage 1 Tickets, Tue 4 Mar 2025 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
Moving Social Work is a co-produced and strength-based training programme designed to empower social workers in promoting physical activity – moving more often for social justice, wellbeing, and good health. This training has been called for by service users who want more richer conversations about moving a little more often. The training has been co-produced with and by social workers and service users, including over 100 disabled people To register click on this link Moving Social Work Training Tickets, Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite
Collaboratively faciltated with all our Universities in Greater Manchester. This session is for Practice Educators, preparing for students, who want to have a refresh over the local placement processes and policies from our four universities. This session will cover placement application forms, student and placement handbooks and next steps when accepting your student. Guidance to Practice Educator CPD will shared. To register for this session click here: Practice Educator – Placement Processes Refresh Tickets, Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
These masterclasses are online events from the partner agencies in the Greater Manchester Social Work Academy, supporting the professional development of our Practice Educator community in Greater Manchester. In this masterclass we will cover: To revisit principles of holistic assessment To explore report writing including preparing to write the report To share good practice To undertake CPD which can be used as evidence for SWE registration To register for this session click here: Practice Educator Masterclass – Holistic Assessment and Report Writing Tickets, Wed 12 Feb 2025 at 10:00 | Eventbrite
Our annual Careers Fair is an opportunity for Social Work students to find out what career opportunities are on offer across all our partners in Greater Manchester. The GMSWA Careers fair 2025 will be hosted by The University of Manchester on 12th February 2025 The event will be opened with introduction by Nazir Afzal OBE – Chancellor of The University of Manchester and former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England. The events include: Employer stalls Employability Workshops Employers Panel ASYE Panel and information workshop Social Work Applications Workshop Mock Interview Sessions British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Registration now open, please see your placement lead for details
How is racism understood in literature about the experiences of black and minority ethnic social work students in Britain? A Conceptual review.
Dr Dharman Jeyasingham and Dr Julie Morton (Social Work Education, 38 (5), pp 563-575)
Abstract
This article presents findings from a study which explored the everyday ways race works on social work programmes in England. The study focused on how race was spoken about and conceptualised, how people were categorised and ordered according to race and the social interactions where race was understood by participants to be significant. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight social work lecturers and nineteen black social work students at two universities in England, to explore the following topics: classroom-based and practice learning, assessment and feedback, interactions between students and between students and educators, and university and practice agency cultures. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and the following themes identified: the routine interpellation of black students and communities in terms of absolute cultural differences, black students’ everyday experiences of marginalisation, hostility and othering, and the racialisation of black students in judgements made about their academic and practice performance. The article concludes that social work education must engage more deeply with contemporary theorisations of race and culture, and that social work educators need a reflexive understanding of how notions such as diversity, equality and universal academic standards are put into practice in ways that marginalise and devalue black students.
Children’s social workers agile working practice and experiences beyond the office
Dr Dharman Jeyasingham, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 49, Issue 3, April 2019, Pages 559-576, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy077
Abstract
Agile working (flexibility around practitioners’ roles and the location and time of work) is increasingly common across local authority social work in the UK but there is little evidence about the practices it entails, with the small amount of existing research concerned largely with its impact on office environments. This article presents findings from a qualitative exploratory study of eleven social workers’ practices and experiences when engaged in agile working away from office spaces. Data were generated through practitioner diaries, photographs elicited from practitioners and semi-structured interviews, and were analysed using a grounded theory approach. The study found practitioners engaged in agile working in a wide range of domestic, leisure and formal work environments across the public–private continuum. This gave them superficial control over how they worked, in particular the freedom to work in solitude and establish distance between themselves and perceived demands from service users and other practitioners. However, agile working also involved a wider range of material practices and affective experiences for practitioners. These changes provoke questions about data security, increased visibility and unanticipated encounters in public spaces, and the shifting relationship between information-management work and elements of practice involving face-to-face interaction with others.
Dr Dharman Jeyasingham of University of Manchester was the lead the ESRC funded project “Becoming agile in local authority children’s safeguarding social work services: examining organisational and individual change in public sector social work”. Details on this project can be found here: GtR (ukri.org)
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Not Ageing Out of Violence? Older Mens Biographical Narratives of Their Abuse and Violence in Intimate Relationships With Female Partners
Bellamy, C. Struthers, M and Green, L (2023) Cited in Bows, H. (ed) Not Your Usual Suspect: Older Offenders of Violence (Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse), Emerald Publishing limited, Bingley, pp. 105-119 https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-887-620231008 Abstract Drawing on empirical research which incorporated biographical interviews with two older male perpetrators, this chapter develops theoretical conceptualisations of the histories, experiences and motives of these men. Four key areas are highlighted, which will be subject to closer scrutiny in relation to extant literature: (i) gender, particularly notions of masculinity, power and entitlement; (ii) attitudes relating to the use of violence both within intimate relationships and generally (iii) critical junctures in the life course which triggered attempts to desist; and (iv) an exploration of maturation and completion of treatment programmes in relation to their use of violence, future risks and efforts towards desistance.
Exploring health and social care professional initial perceptions of caring for trans patients.
Kirlew MI, Lord H, Weber J (2020) Exploring health and social care professionals’ initial perceptions of caring for trans patients. Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2020.e11383
