March 2024 Newsletter

Spring is in the air! The days are getting noticeably longer and whilst the weather is still offering us plenty of rain, nature around us is waking up. With a sense of warmth and light, I would like to share some energetic news with you from the Centre of Cross-Disciplinary Social Work. The academic team has been busy across the qualifying degree courses and undergone the process of revalidation and inspection from Social Work England.

Whilst all the paperwork for those has been submitted, we are now preparing for the revalidation process for the CPD framework. The revalidation comes at a time of great change and reform for statutory settings and Children’s Social Care in particular. It offers us a unique chance to review and re-imagine!

Some local authorities have shared their thoughts and plans with us on how they would like to respond to the radical reforms in Children’s Social Care. We would like to meet with our Practice Partners and see how we can meet the needs of the changing profession- from Child In Need lead practitioners to Specialist Child Protection leads. The proposed Early Careers Framework offers opportunities to rethink what Social Workers and allied professionals need to know in order to do their job well. Please get in touch with me (lenzt@bournemouth.ac.uk) if you would like to have a conversation.

Research update:

Research update:

Background: Drs Louise Oliver and Orlanda Harvey (Senior Lecturers in Social Work, Bournemouth University) in partnership with Soroptimist International Bournemouth and the BCP Community Safety Partnership ran a conference last year on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). A reoccurring conversation at the conference was: what next? How do we stop VAWG happening again?

A full report of the outcomes can be found in the report by Dr Oliver and Dr Harvey.

The need to challenge culture led to the team getting together with the addition of Dorset Womens CIC and the charity Acts Fast, to organise the Summit with the intention of bringing together a range of key decision makers form across all those organisations that are on the frontline, working to tackle Violence Against Women and Girls.

The Summit:

The keynote speakers were Superintendent Emma Sweetzer and Dr Kari Davies. Emma emphasized that her role “involves challenging stereotypes and changing a culture from within the force out to the wider public” and her speech was a call to action and Kari presented her research in this area focusing on the barriers and challenges to police and Crown Prosecution Services joint working on rape and serious sexual offence cases.

The summit delegates were regional professionals who work in different areas, under the umbrella of Violence Against Women and Girls, including police, social services, policy makers and managers of charities and researchers. The summit conversations focused on finding solutions to challenging the culture surrounding violence and abuse, and through bringing people together, to think together, and start to develop new suggestions and challenge the issue head on. How to change culture, with a focus on the need to start early and focus on education was at the heart of the discussions.

For further information about the summit, please see the BBC news article.

Following this summit, Dr Harvey and Dr Oliver were also interviewed on BBC Dorset and BBC Solent radio, to further talk about VAWG and why this summit was so important. You can listen to the interviews on here and here.

Our next steps will be published in our next report which will be available on the Bournemouth Soroptimists website.
Our Units

Our Units

Here is a list of our units over the next couple of months, we are excited to see you soon! https://www.applycpd.com/bu

Please feel free to contact us via email if you have any questions regarding admissions or how you can build you award with previous academic credits. hsspostregadmissions@bournemouth.ac.uk

More information about each unit can be found on the links below:

Strategic Leadership
Start Date:02/05/24 / Application Cut of Date: 21/03/24

Resilience, advocacy and wellbeing.
Level 6 Level 7
Start Date: 09/05/24 / Application Cut of Date: 28/03/24

Self Leadership
Start Date: 15/05/24 / Application Cut of Date: 03/04/2024

Critical Thinking and Academic Writing Workshop
Start Date: 06/06/24 / Application Cut of Date: 04/06/24

Mental Capacity Act 2005 in Practice
Level 6 Level 7
Start Date: 25/06/24 / Application Cut of Date: 14/05/24

Risk assessment and decision making in practice
Level 6 Level 7
Start Date: 02/07/24 / Application Cut of Date: 21/05/24

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March 2024 Newsletter

Research update:

Our Units