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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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BASW expresses grave concerns at spending cuts
22nd June 2010BASW has responded to the UK coalition government’s first budget by issuing a stark warning that cuts which fail to protect social work services will put the lives of vulnerable children and adults at serious risk. No government would be forgiven, BASW said, if it put a 4% cut in corporation tax ahead of the [...]
Age UK plea for social care budgets to be protected
21st June 2010Thousands of older people’s lives could be placed at risk if social care budgets are slashed in tomorrow’s Budget, Age UK has warned. The charity said that a £1.75 billion funding black hole will open up within the next two years if expected government-wide spending cuts are applied to older people’s social care services. If [...]
Rise in social work undergraduates in Scotland
21st June 2010New figures show a marked upturn in students joining social work degree courses in Scotland, according to the Scottish Social Services Council. Early indications suggest an 8% increase in admissions in 2009/10 compared with the previous year, bringing this year’s total intake up to 700 students. A rising trend of admissions appears to have been [...]
World social work agenda agreed in Hong Kong
21st June 2010Plans to give social work a global political voice have taken another step forward with agreement on proposals for an agenda to tackle deepening economic and social crises across the world. Details of how the ambitious global agenda will be drawn up and promoted were unveiled on the last day of the World Conference on social [...]
Nottinghamshire social workers’ annual leave cut
18th June 2010Long-serving social workers at Nottinghamshire county council have had their annual leave cut by three days. Until April of this year, staff who had worked at the council for more than 10 years were given an extra three days’ holiday. But in a bid to save £2.9m the local authority has cut the entitlement to [...]
Marked increase in Scotland social work degree applicants
18th June 2010New figures show a marked upturn in students joining social work degree courses in Scotland, according to the Scottish Social Services Council. Early indications suggest an 8% increase in admissions in 2009/10 compared with the previous year, bringing this year’s total intake up to 700 students. A rising trend of admissions appears to have been [...]
Social workers could not have foreseen Shannon Matthews kidnap
17th June 2010BASW has welcomed a report that says social workers could not have anticipated Shannon Matthews’s abduction or her mother’s involvement in it. A serious case review published by the Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board says that professionals working with the family could not have foreseen the events in 2008. Shannon disappeared in February and was found [...]
Newly qualified social workers
17th June 2010A study of newly qualified social workers has found that most wanted to quit after a year because of a combination of work pressures and lack of support. Researchers Gordon Jack and Helen Donnellan followed the progress of NQSWs based in children’s services through their first year of employment and found by the end the [...]