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BASW rejects Daily Mail fears about the trouble with baby Chardonnays
BASW has responded to media stories about social workers standing in the way of adopted parents being able to change the name of the children they adopt by emphasising the importance of maintaining identity to a child who has been through significant upheaval.
10th May 2012
BASW’s disappointment at HPC’s refusal to register social work students
BASW has expressed disappointment at the conclusion of the Health Professions Council (HPC) that registration of social work students by the same body that regulates qualified practitioners is not necessary to protect the public in the long term.
10th May 2012
BASW comment following sentencing in the Rochdale child sex abuse case
Read BASW’s latest Huffington Post blog which poses the question “Why do we only take notice of our teenagers when rapists are convicted?”
9th May 2012
BASW signs letter to Cameron urging action to end social care ‘crisis’
Elderly and disabled people are being left ‘in quiet desperation, trying to cope alone, often ending up in hospital or crisis care’.
8th May 2012
BASW’s 2012 AGM – Annual Report and Order Paper
The BASW UK AGM 2012 This will be held on Thursday 14th June 2012, at Novotel Hotel, Birmingham, B1 2HT
8th May 2012
Social care white paper is a vital chance to implement Dilnot
With evidence gathering for the white paper on adult social care drawing to a close this week, in BASW’s latest blog for the Huffington Post, the Association urges the government to “buck the trend of a society that is only too willing to wash its hands of older people.
4th May 2012
Caution against kneejerk move to satellite tracking paedophiles
The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) has cautioned Scotland’s justice minister against a kneejerk move towards the use of satellite technology in tracking sex offenders.
4th May 2012
Home Office should not resurrect child asylum seeker dental x-ray scheme
Following pressure from a number of concerned groups including BASW, the UK Border Agency has been forced to suspend a dental x-ray pilot scheme to determine the age of child asylum seekers.
30th April 2012
BASW welcomes chief social worker “victory”
BASW has welcomed the advertising of a vacancy for the position of chief social worker within the Westminster government.
23rd April 2012
Focus on Torbay highlights pressures, BASW says
BASW has highlighted the pressures facing social work teams in the wake of Torbay’s children’s services coming under the spotlight for the fact that two out of five children at risk are not being assessed within the government’s ten-day target.
18th April 2012
Government urged to act on child protection crisis
Commenting on Cafcass figures showing that the number of local council care applications has passed 10,000 for the first time.
11th April 2012
Independent social workers win judicial backing
The important role of independent social workers in family court proceedings won support from a high court judge at a Family Justice Review Public Summit.
3rd April 2012
Confidentiality in suicide cases – your views sought
The Department of Health (DoH) is inviting BASW members to comment on how better to support families who are worried that a loved one is at risk, and also those who are coping with the aftermath of a suicide of a family member.
3rd April 2012
BASW’s concern at arbitrary care proceeding targets
A Public Law Summit on the Family Justice Review (FJR) heard an upbeat assessment of the potential for an “effective, powerful College of Social Work”.
3rd April 2012
“Poor morale, poor decisions and erosion of identity” – dangers of health integration
BASW has restated its reservations about the dangers of integration as the UK’s largest merger of local authority and NHS care services prepares to go live.
2nd April 2012
Doncaster SCR prompts BASW to set out cornerstones for improvement
BASW has set out the four cornerstones for improving the effectiveness of serious case reviews, following sharp government criticisms of the serious case review (SCR) into the case of two boys who violently assaulted two other boys in Doncaster in 2009.
30th March 2012
Dementia is not just a “social” condition
Welcoming this morning’s announcement that dementia funding is to be more than doubled by 2015.
26th March 2012
