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21st May 2012
Blog: Sexual exploitation of children -
9th May 2012
BASW comment following sentencing in the Rochdale child sex abuse case -
4th May 2012
Social care white paper is a vital chance to implement Dilnot -
30th April 2012
Home Office should not resurrect child asylum seeker dental x-ray scheme -
11th April 2012
Government urged to act on child protection crisis -
3rd April 2012
Confidentiality in suicide cases – your views sought
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Ofsted report: Adopters describe social work assessors as ‘welcoming’ and ‘sensitive’
2nd April 2012BASW has welcomed aspects of an Ofsted report into the causes of delays in the adoption system, a document that found adoptive parents to be happy with the overall service offered by professionals. The report, Right on Time, revealed adoptive parents believe they receive a sensitive, welcoming and thorough response. The report found that the [...]
Doncaster SCR prompts BASW to set out cornerstones for improvement
30th March 2012BASW 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. Responding to education secretary Michael Gove’s dismissal of the full SCR as indicative of [...]
Give social workers a role in disaster relief work
26th March 2012Social workers should be given a more integral role in supporting teams of workers who assist with natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies. Speaking at BASW England’s Annual Conference, the association’s development manager, Bridget Robb, questioned why disaster prevention and management in the UK does not involve social workers in any official capacity. Instead, she argued, disaster planning [...]
Dementia is not just a “social” condition
26th March 2012Welcoming this morning’s announcement that dementia funding is to be more than doubled by 2015, Ruth Cartwright, BASW England manager, said: “When the previous government launched its Dementia Strategy, the funding element was missing. We need to know more about the causes and background to the disease, about ways of treating it and about how [...]
Social work training must encourage students to challenge the political “status quo”
26th March 2012Social workers should resist “becoming de-politicised and part of the status quo” and must not be afraid of reclaiming community work even though it has a reputation as “too radical”, a leading social work academic told BASW’s England conference. Describing herself as an “activist scholar”, Professor Lena Dominelli, Professor of Applied Social Sciences and Academician [...]
Social worker describes opposing former employer to get better deal for service users
23rd March 2012Disillusioned by the “process bound approach” of working for a local authority, a social worker has told BASW England’s World Social Work Day event how setting up as an independent social worker had “given her pride back” in her profession. Kelly Hicks, winner of Adult Social Worker of the Year Award 2011 (England), described her [...]
Police chief tells social workers to grasp the reality of human trafficking
22nd March 2012Social 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. Huw Watkins, detective inspector for the intelligence department at Gwent Police, emphasised to attendees the need [...]
Wales conference hears ‘shoulder to shoulder’ rallying cry
22nd March 2012The 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. Dalija Snieskiene spoke of the profession’s emergence over the last [...]