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The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ (in collaboration with King's College London) offers a stimulating programme of conferences, seminars and workshops. In each session, speakers discuss recent research on the topic and its implications for social work and social care practice.
To book a place at these events please email [email protected]
Practice Development Events
- Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 27 February 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 27 February 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm
- From DoLs to LPS: Understanding the Changing Context of Assessing Capacity
Monday 2 March 2026, 10:00am - 11:30am - Use of Self: Working with ‘Sameness’ and ‘Difference’, The Role of the Social Graces
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Working with Uncertainty: Promoting Critical Reflection and Analysis in Children’s Social Care
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 11:30am - 1:00pm - Relational Wellbeing and Young Refugees
Wednesday 4 March 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm - Navigating a Period of Reform in Children’s Services: Messages from Research
Monday 9 March 2026, 2:00pm - 3:30pm - Bridging the Gap: What Early Career Social Workers Need to Know to Support Children and Families
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm - Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Monday 16 March 2026, 9:30am - 11:00am - Innovations for Care-Experienced Parents
Tuesday 17 March 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm - ‘Cuckooing’ in the Context of Domestic Abuse & Domestic Homicide
Thursday 26 March 2026, 11:00am - 12:30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Children’s Services
Friday 27 March 2026, 10.00am - 11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum for Adult Social Care
Friday 27 March 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm
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Engaging Men in the Context of Children’s Services
Tuesday 21 April 2026, 9.30am-11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Children Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 24 April 2026, 10.00am-11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Adult Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 24 April 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm - Responding to Concerns About Domestic Violence and Abuse in Children’s Safeguarding
Thursday 23 April 2026, 10.00am-11.30am -
Putting Families at the Centre: Understanding the Role of Family Led Decision Making
Wednesday 29 April 2026, 2.00pm-3.30pm - Supporting Older Survivors of Sexual Violence: Barriers and Best Practice
Thursday 30 April 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm
- Young People’s Perspectives on Disclosing Their Own Use of Harmful Behaviour
Wednesday 6 May 2026, 11.00am-12.00pm -
Public Perceptions of Social Work: Myths and Realities
Thursday 7 May 2026, 9.30am-11.00am -
What Do We Mean by Professional Curiosity When Working with Children and Their Families and What Promotes It?
Thursday 7 May 2026, 11.30am-1.00pm -
Pre-Birth Assessments: Effectively Addressing the Practice and Ethical Challenges
Tuesday 12 May 2026, 1.30pm-3.00pm - Enhancing Learning for the Future: A Document Analysis of Serious Child Safeguarding Case Reviews with Romani and Traveller Communities in England
Thursday 14 May 2026, 11.00am-12.30pm - ‘Mothering’ in the Context of Child Welfare Systems
Tuesday 19 May 2026, 11.00am-12.30pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Children Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 29 May 2026, 10.00am-11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Adult Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 29 May 2026, 11.00am-12.00pm
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Understanding and Responding to the Impact of Secondary and Vicarious Trauma and Moral Distress on Staff
Wednesday 3 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am - Putting Analysis into Assessment: A Person Centred Approach
Wednesday 3 June 2026, 11.30am-1.00pm -
Thursday 4 June 2026, 11.00am-12.30pm
- Responding to the Challenge of Loneliness in the Context of Adult Social Care
Friday 5 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am - Supporting Neurodivergent Young Women and Girls After Sexual Harm: Insights from Research and Practice
Thursday 11 June 2026, 11.00am-2.30pm -
Child Protection Conferences: The Evolving Role of the Child Protection Chair
Tuesday 16 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am -
Reuniting Children and Young People with Their Birth Families
Tuesday 16 June 2026, 11.30am-1.00pm -
Managing Risk, Complexity and Uncertainty in Adult Social Care
Thursday 18 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am -
What Do We Mean by Child Centred Practice? A Critical Appraisal
Tuesday 23 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am -
Mental Capacity Assessments: Towards a Social Model?
Tuesday 23 June 2026, 11.30am-1.00pm - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Children Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 26 June 2026, 10.00am-11.00am - Critical and Reflective Practice Forum: A ‘Book Group’ for Adult Social Care Managers and Practitioners
Friday 26 June 2026, 11.00am – 12.00pm - Deconstructing the Relationship Between Us and the State: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women and Girls
Thursday 25 June 2026, 11.00am-12.30pm -
12 Years After the Care Act: How Strengths-Based Is Adult Social Care Practice in 2026?
Thursday 30 June 2026, 9.30am-11.00am
- Self-Neglect and the Challenges of Inter-Agency Collaboration: Learning From Practitioners and People with Lived Experience
Thursday 2 July 2026, 11.00am-12.30pm - Building Professional and Organisational Resilience: Supporting the Well-being of the Workforce
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 9.30am-11.00am - The Impact of Trauma on Children and Young People
Wednesday 8 July 2026, 11.30am-1.00pm - Understanding the Evolving Needs of the Workforce in a Period of Uncertainty and Challenge: A Webinar for Those in Workforce and Staff Development
Friday 10 July 2026, 10.00am-12.00pm - What Do We Mean By Professional Curiosity In Adult Social Care And What Promotes it?
Wednesday 15 July 2026, 1.30pm-3.00pm
Attendance is free of charge to members of Making Research Count at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and King's College London. The charge for non-members is £195 per place for seminars and £245 per place for conferences. For online webinars, the cost for non-members is £70/person/1-hour webinar.
If you would like to enquire about becoming a member of Making Research Count with full access to all the seminars/conferences, then please contact the Coordinator, Gayanthi Hapuarachchi at [email protected]