World Social Work Day Posters are available to download from this page: https://www.ifsw.org/social-work-action/world-social-work-day/world-social-work-day-2019/
10.30am-3.30pm Registration, tea/coffee at 10.00am
Ballymascanlon House Hotel, Dundalk
Tuesday 19th March 10.30-3.30pm Ballymascanlon House Hotel Dundalk
IASW in partnership with BASW host this year’s World Social Work Day celebration for social workers across the island of Ireland to meet and share their views on the importance of encouraging a professional social work identity.
The format will be interactive, with a series of informal workshops enabling attendees to discuss issues including: what it means to have a professional social work identity, the role of CPD in supporting identity, service users’ views on professionalism, and the impact of regulation for a professional group.
The programme will also explore how the professional bodies and regulators from both sides of the border can work together to better support social workers to grow in confidence in their professional identity.
To register a place at the event visit https://www.basw.co.uk/events/social-work-professionalism-promoting-values-empowering-identity
Programme
10.00am Registration and Tea/Coffee/Scones
10.30am Welcome Aine McGuirk IASW Chair
10.35am Opening Remarks
Sean Holland, Chief Social Work Officer, Department of Health (NI)
Michelle Clark, Chief Social Worker, Department of Children & Youth Affairs (ROI)
10.55am Keynote Address
Dr Gloria Kirwan, Lecturer in Social Work in the Dept of Applied Social
Studies, Maynooth University.
School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
“Re-affirming Professionalism: Opportunities and Challenges”
11.25am BASW NI/IASW
“All-Ireland Enabling Professionalism Project”
Carolyn Ewart, National Director, BASW NI
Aine McGuirk, Chair, IASW
11.30am Workshop 1
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Workshop 2
2.30pm Feedback and Next Steps Patricia Higgins Interim CEO NISCC
3.15pm Closing Remarks Colin Reid BASW NI Chair
Directions; https://goo.gl/maps/U8meQS9HMaL2
World Social Work Day Posters are available to download from this page: https://www.ifsw.org/social-work-action/world-social-work-day/world-social-work-day-2019/