Anti-racist practice: how to showcase and share best practice nationally

Millie qualified as a social worker in 1994 and has worked as a social worker, team manager and children’s services manager within local authority children’s services and adult social care.  She has worked across a range of disciplines including safeguarding and child protection, HIV, palliative care, child asylum and child trafficking, leaving care and for a specialist FGM and safeguarding service. 

She took up the role of anti-racist lead practitioner at Brighton & Hove City Council in November 2020 and was made strategic anti-racist lead – business improvement in spring 2023. She is also a practice educator and delivers training on anti-racist practice and cultural competence within social work and more widely.

Liz Howard is a registered social worker and professional officer with the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England team - a diverse national role with a focus on social work with adults.

In her current role she promotes anti-racism in social work from an allyship perspective through the delivery of presentations, support to branches, groups and networks and through anti-racist campaign activity. She has been part of reflective conversations as part of the BASW England Triple-A chinwag mini-series.  https://www.basw.co.uk/triple-chinwag-basw-england-mini-series

She is a contributory author to The Anti-racist Social Worker: Stories of Direct Action in Social Care and Occupational Therapy published by Critical Publishing  https://www.criticalpublishing.com/anti-racist-social-worker and has featured in an episode of the Anti-racist Listening Project podcast.  https://socialworkwithadults.blog.gov.uk/2022/12/16/introducing-the-anti-racist-listening-project-podcast/

Antonia Ogundayisi is a social work leader with more than 13 years’ experience in social care. Her specialisms include children and families, anti-racist practice and youth justice services. She has worked in a variety of public and voluntary sector roles with diverse teams and one of her core missions is to drive racial equity across different safeguarding professions. She is also committed to pursuing racial equity for Black and Global Majority children. She is currently working as a service manager at Essex County Council where she is developing and embedding an anti-racist strategy.

Shantel Thomas is the professional lead for social work and course lead for the MA in Social Work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also the former UK Anti-Racism Lead at the British Association of Social Workers, an independent training consultant and a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex. In 2022 she set up the Anti Racist Movement to provide a safe and healing space for people affected by racism and to campaign for change.

Email antiracistmove@gmail.com to find out more or connect with Shantel on Twitter @ShantelThomas77, via her profile on LinkedIn or by emailing shantel@sbtconsultancyservices.co.uk