Principal Social Worker Network

Chair: Liana Kotze, Principal Social Worker, LB Barking & Dagenham
Vice-Chair: TBC
Membership: The network is open to London Principal Social Workers

Key Aims for 2020/21

• Lead innovative working
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (details to be agreed)
    • Review the Task Force BAME Communities Advisory Group and Workforce Race Equality Standards for Social Care (when published)
  • Strength Based Practice – development of a London SW ‘charter’
• Wellbeing:
  • Social Work Health check – respond to regional analysis and include in workplan
  • Share initiatives which to support the wellbeing of staff
• Quality of practice and practice leadership:
  • Development and share a range of Case File Audit Tools

Resources

Some links may be unavailable if you are not registered with the appropriate network

• Role of the Adult PSW
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) – Guidance and Resources for Social Workers
• Research into Practice for Adults (RIPFA)
• Skills for Care – various documents relating to National PSW Network, ASC Workforce Data Leadership and Management
  British Assoc of Social Work and Social Workers
• Knowledge and Skills Framework for SWrs in ASC
• ASC Quality Matters
• Using NICE Guidance in SW

COVID-19 specific

• Skills for Care: COVID-19 updates for Social Work
• SCIE: Care providers guidance
• Research in Practice

Recent News

Future meetings and events