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Global conference commits to new guidance on child sexual abuse
A gathering of social workers from around the world has committed to the urgent development of new guidance aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse.
25th July 2012
Former New Zealand PM back’s social work’s Global Agenda
Social work’s global manifesto for promoting social and economic equality, the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, was officially received on behalf of the United Nations in New York by the former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark.
3rd April 2012
Give social workers a role in disaster relief work
Social workers should be given a more integral role in supporting teams of workers who assist with natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies.
26th March 2012
Wales conference hears ‘shoulder to shoulder’ rallying cry
The social work profession was unable to exist in the Soviet Union and has only been able to establish itself over the past two decades, BASW Cymru’s World Social Work Day celebration in Cardiff was told by a leading official for the Lithuanian Association of Social Work.
22nd March 2012
Police chief tells social workers to grasp the reality of human trafficking
Social workers and students at BASW Cymru’s WSWD event in Cardiff Bay have heard how the increasingly widespread problem of human trafficking can only be tackled by integrated thinking and a detailed understanding of the culture that surrounds it.
22nd March 2012
