Advice and representation around professional practice issues is an important part of the BASW UK offer to members. Our Officer for Scotland will reflect on, and discuss with workshop participants those areas of practice which frequently dominate requests for support, and what can be done to prevent and/or deal with dilemmas or challenging situations. It also draws on UK practice across the nations, highlighting differences and similarities. Contributed by: SASW

1. Current issues for social workers in
practice
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2. Resources diminishing
Stress in the workplace
Sickness management and return to work interviews
HR and how they interact with you in your role
Team building – how do you keep this meaningful
Registration issues with SSSC
Whistleblowing
Grievance procedures – how to do you manage the process
Social care partnership and how this impacts on line management
Themes taken from Advice and Representation
services

3. Communication with colleagues
Reflective practice keeps us in control of our decisions
Professional support from colleagues and management
Inclusion in planning for future services
Open and honest two way consultations with management
Professional identity in often multi disciplined settings such as social care
partnership (NHS)
Understanding policy and statutory responsibilities
What helps us stay positive?

4. Free discussion in groups and bring back to the main group for feedback.
These ideas will be fed back through BASW/SASW and will help us in our
discussions at many groups with what the social worker needs for them to
feel part of future of social work in Scotland
What might be useful to help us stay positive and
be a part of the solutions?

5. Back to group
Summary of feedback

6. Thank you for taking part in todays workshop
We will endeavour to represent your issues and ideas positively in all forums
BASW/SASW works hard to represent social workers who are delivering
frontline services across the country
We hope you feel we have listened and captured the themes you would like to
be challenged
There are a number of ways in which SASW supports its members so if you have
an issue you think we should know about please email us at ……..
Thank you