Our monthly Exploring Expertise webinars give practitioners the opportunity to hear from leading figures in practice and research on innovative developments and examples of 'best practice' in the family placement sector. Presentations include Q&A sessions to enable attendees to delve deeper into the subject matter and explore connections to their own practice.
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Exploring Expertise: Shades Of Bias – Challenging Discrimination, Oppression and Racism in Social Work and Beyond
9 June 2026 | 11.30am - 1pm | Online
The British Association of Social Workers, in partnership with CoramBAAF and the Racial Justice Family Work, invite you to explore Shades of Bias (SoB). Shades of Bias is a versatile case study template designed to enable critical reflection on how discrimination, oppression and racism manifests in social work and beyond. It is a simple process for documenting, analysing and addressing instances of bias.
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Exploring Practice: Using AI to support social work practice in fostering
This session will explore how AI can support social work practice without weakening professional judgement, and the support, guidance and training required to accompany the use of these tools.
Norfolk County Council’s Fostering Service has recently developed a directory of Copilot agents, bringing together tools to support assessment, supervision, reviews and audits. Each agent is designed with a narrow brief and built-in safeguards to ensure all work remains within NCC’s secure systems. The tools were developed with a simple initial aim: to reduce the time social workers spend writing Form F assessments, while improving clarity, consistency and reflective depth.
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Exploring Practice: Creating simple digital tools to support kinship families
In partnership with St Mary’s University, Surrey Virtual School and Achieving for Children Virtual School launched a research project to explore the educational barriers faced by children in kinship care. Through interviews, surveys and training with school staff, the project assessed awareness and understanding of kinship care in education settings. It also engaged directly with kinship carers to identify their needs and priorities.
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EDI Exploring Expertise: Accountability, allyship and Anti-Racist Practice
We are delighted to be working alongside the Racial Justice Family Network to bring together a panel of experts for a conversation on what anti-racist practice looks like in day-to-day practice, the tools that support its implementation, and the pathways toward a more fair and equitable system for all children, young people and families.
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Keeping children in care connected to their cultures - Key messages from international and national research- informed practice
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Weekend Fostering - a new approach to building lasting relationships with children in care
Watch hereExploring Expertise: FASD - Supporting children and families through research-informed research
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Learning from evidence on Parenting Through Adversity for parents of babies and children 0-10
Watch hereExploring Expertise: Lifelong Links - creating lasting support networks for children in care
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The recordings of our Exploring Expertise and Learning from Research webinars are available to members only for 12 months after publishing. After this time period they are uploaded to our YouTube channel to be available to all.