7 January - LBC radio & BBC Radio London - Sharon Shoesmith “unemployable & living off benefits” (Nushra Mansuri)

9 January - Guardian - Success in social work: getting started and moving up (Joe Godden)

11 January - BBC Radio 5Live – Social workers need the right empathy skills to avoid “burnout” (Joe Godden)

11 January - Sky News - Adoption hotspots map ‘simplistic’ (Bridget Robb)

14 January - BBC Radio Kent - Ofsted upgrade Kent children’s services to “adequate” (Nushra Mansuri)

22 January - CYP Now - Increase in 'adoption parties' on the cards (Nushra Mansuri)

24 January - Community Care - Social workers to be removed from the adoption screening process (Bridget Robb)

25 January - Family Law Week - Organisations oppose plans to remove adoption recruitment from local authorities (Bridget Robb)

28 January - Evening Standard - Independent minds make a difference (Carole Hassell/ Beverley Dover)

29 January - Community Care - Got a job yet? Newly qualified social workers on the hunt for their first role (Joe Godden)

29 January - Guardian - Welsh social care bill unveiled (Robin Moulster)

30 January - Community Care - 'Severe pressure' on AMHPs amid job cuts, rising workload and bed shortages (Joe Godden)

6 December - Community Care - Osborne’s cuts undermine claims to protect frontline social work - Bridget Robb

8 December - Daily Mail - (BASW part of) NHS vow to protect vulnerable patients

9 December - Daily Telegraph - London Evening Standard, Daily Star, Daily Express & Press Association - Fast-track adoptions may aid paedophiles - Judith Acreman

10 December - The Scotsman - Sheriff’s attack on social workers shows criminal lack of understanding of their role - Ruth Stark

10 December - Community Care - Winterbourne-style hospital placements to end by 2014, says minister

10 December - Community Care -‘Minister, my comments on adoption were neither ‘crass' nor 'irresponsible’ - Judith Acreman

13 December - Guardian - Social workers need more training on drug and alcohol issues - Dr Sarah Galvani

13 December - BBC Radio Coventry & Warks - Coventry Council approve £92m of cuts, including £2.4m from children's services - Ruth Cartwright

16 December - BBC Sunday Politics show – Yorkshire has the highest child referral rates in the country - Bridget Robb

19 December - Huffington Post - Troubled Families? Or Troubled Stats? (Hayley Meachin)

27 December - The Times - The case for and against greater access to children’s records (Bridget Robb)

2 November - Community Care - Government to appoint two chief social workers, not one - Bridget Robb

2 November - Community Care - 'ICS is the bane of my life', says child protection social worker - BASW member 'Frank'

6 November - Guardian - Social workers 'at rock bottom' over issue of race and adoption - Nushra Mansuri

6 November - BBC R4 You & Yours - Why are so many children missing out on adoption? - Janet Foulds

7 November - Guardian - Politicians, not social workers, are letting children down - BASW member 'Frank'

7 November - BBC Radio Merseyside - Too many children being left in neglectful situations (Education Committee's Child Protection report) - Janet Foulds

9 November - BBC Radio WM - Sandwell Council give £1.5m to private management company for children's services - Fran Fuller

14 November - Paisley Daily Express - Top Award for Liz - Liz Snodgrass

16 November - BBC R5 Live Victoria Derbyshire - Doncaster social workers under 'draconian' conditions - Nushra Mansuri

16 November - ITV Evening News - Doncaster council children's services get inadequate Ofsted rating - Bridget Robb

16 November - Daily Telegraph - Child protection standards slide in Edlington torture case council - Bridget Robb

16 November – The Independent - Michael Gove calls for hundreds more vulnerable children a year to be taken into care, and for an end to 'preoccupation with rights of biological parents' – Bridget Robb

16 November - Yorkshire Post - Put more children in care says Gove, as Doncaster children’s services are slammed again - Bridget Robb

16 November - Daily Telegraph - Put children before parents, says Michael Gove - Bridget Robb

17 November - Daily Mail - Gove: More children should be taken into care - Bridget Robb

20 November - Community Care - 30% shortfall in domestic violence advisers as council cuts bite - Nushra Mansuri

20 November - BBC Radio Scotland - Report claims that Fathers face ‘institutionalised sexism’ in children’s hearing - Ruth Stark

23 November - Community Care - Regulator warns of growing 'risk of poor care' as 1 in 6 nursing homes fail safeguarding standards - Ruth Cartwright

24 November - BBC Radio Bristol - FAST training for children to defend themselves against paedophiles - David Niven

24 November - Daily Telegraph - Foster couple lose children for being members of Ukip - Nushra Mansuri

26 November - Community Care - Employers defend rise in use of agency social workers - Ruth Cartwright

28 November - Community Care - Breakup of integrated mental health teams harms patients and social workers - Faye Wilson

28 November - Community Care - Forget reforms; what social work needs is more staff - Judith Acreman

29 November - The Detail – New media guidance for reporting on child abuse and neglect, BBC Radio Talk Back (Listen) - Carolyn Ewart

29 November - BBC News, UTV, Belfast Telegraph, Belfast Newsletter, BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Radio Ulster Talk Back (Listen) & Press Association - Social work in NI 'two thirds paperwork' - Carolyn Ewart

30 November - Community Care - Prejudiced attack on social work training ignores real issues facing profession - Bridget Robb

1 October – Guardian Social Care Network – Busting the myths about social work
BASW spokesperson: Ruth Cartwright

1 October – Guardian Social Care Network – Should UK universities take social work education more seriously?
Joe Godden

2 October - BBC Radio Wales – BASW Cymru Social Work Awards – Claire Page

3 October – BBC Radio 4, Bringing up Britain (on adoption) - Nushra Mansuri

3 October - Community Care - BASW: Social workers need same online protection as celebrities - Bridget Robb

8 October – Community Care - 'Eastenders' portrayal of social work left me in tears'

9 October – Guardian - Social workers outraged by EastEnders storyline about baby Lexi - Bridget Robb

10 October - Evening Standard - EastEnders plot where teenager's baby is taken away branded 'disgraceful' by social workers - Bridget Robb

10 October – BBC Radio London – Eastenders row – Carolyn Ewart

11 October – BBC Radio Scotland – Jimmy Savile abuse – Ruth Stark

11 October – Daily Star – Eastenders blasted over Lola Pearce baby row – Bridget Robb

11 October – BBC Breakfast – Eastenders row – Sue Kent

12 October – Guardian - Bridget Robb: my social work career journey

26 October - Huffington Post & The Week magazine - Iain Duncan Smith: The Father of Four Who Wants to Provide Bread for Just Two - Hayley Meachin

29 October - BBC R4 Woman's Hour - Foster parents need more freedom to make day-to-day decisions - Sue Kent

5 September – LBC London Radio – When should a child be taken into care? (Jayden Lee Green case)
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

10 September – Community Care – 'It's impossible to teach everything on a degree'
Joe Godden

12 September – Community Care – UK care system failing trafficked children, finds GRETA report
Sue Kent

27 September – Rochdale child sexual exploitation multi-agency review published
BBC R4 Today programme – Janet Foulds
Sky News at lunchtime, 1pm Adam Boulton – Bridget Robb
BBC News 24 – Nushra Mansuri
ITV lunchtime news – Nushra Mansuri

27 September – The Daily Telegraph – NSPCC neglect downgraded
Ruth Stark

1 August – BBC Radio Manchester – Social worker registration move from GSCC to HPC
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

3 August – Huffington Post – Shafilea Ahmed guilty verdict: There’s no honour in child abuse
Hayley Meachin

28 August – Community Care – Website exposing social workers condemned as 'vile'
Nushra Mansuri

22 August – Daily Telegraph – Disabled children 'falling through child protection net' Ofsted warns
Sue Kent

29 August – BBC Radio Scotland – SASW discusses free personal care in Scotland
Ruth Stark

2 July – The Guardian – Why I'm going to the social work conference in Stockholm
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

11 July – BBC Radio 4 You & Yours – Social care white paper
Ruth Cartwright

19 July – BBC Radio Devon Torbay council offering £1k finders fee
Ruth Cartwright

31 July – BBC Midlands Today & BBC Radio WM – Walsall council leader blames social workers for ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report
Sue Kent

3 June – BBC Radio Wales, Eye on Wales – Family Justice Review
BASW spokesperson: Nushra Mansuri

11 June –BBC Radio Derby – Derbyshire Council is set to spend £750,000 re-training social workers to adopt a 'Family Therapy' approach to avoid taking so many children into care and appointing a social work manager to lead it
Fran Fuller

11 June – Eric Pickles’ “troubled” families initiative; coverage included: Left Foot Forward – Nushra Mansuri, Society Guardian bulletin – Nushra Mansuri, UCB Radio – Nushra Mansuri, BBC Radio Derby – Janet Foulds

12 June – BBC R4 You & Yours – Eric Pickles “troubled” families
Nushra Mansuri

12 June – BBC News – Child protection ‘red tape’ is cut
Nushra Mansuri

29 June Nushra Mansuri Huffington Post – OAPs: Your turn next to be labelled benefit scroungers
Hayley Meachin

9 May – BBC Radio London – Rochdale Sex Abuse
Janet Foulds

11 May – The Daily Telegraph – Half of councils failing adoption targets, controversial 'scorecards' show
Nushra Mansuri

14 May – BBC Radio 5Live Double Take programme Rochdale Sex Abuse
Janet Foulds

15 May – BBC Radio Cambridgeshire – Tyler Whelan verdict
Nushra Mansuri

16 May – Community Care – Queens University Research reveals 60% rise in child protection plans

17 May – The Guardian – Child grooming: What social workers should know
Janet Foulds

17 May – Social workers fear cuts putting lives at risk, BASW’s State of Social Work survey. Over 200 pieces of coverage, including:
Social workers fear service cuts risk children's lives
Social care cuts are putting childrens lives at risk

19 May – Children & Young People Now – Government told to reconsider court restrictions on independent social workers
Hilton Dawson

19 May – The Municipal Journal – Care cases put service 'in crisis'
Sue Kent

21 May – BBC Radio Berkshire Breakfast – Adult service users mount legal challenge to West Berkshire Council cuts
Hilton Dawson

22 May – The Sunday Express – 'Let granny adopt' plea
Nushra Mansuri

22 May – BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire and BBC Radio Manchester -ASBOs being scrapped
Ruth Cartwright

25 May Huffington Post – Rochdale CSE: Why Do We Only Take Notice of Our Teenagers When Rapists Are Convicted?
Hayley Meachin

25 May – The Independent – Baby P social workers lose tribunal appeal
Hilton Dawson

25 May – Baby P social workers loase sacking appeal - also Baby P social workers lose tribunal appeal
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

29 May – BBC Radio Kent – Kent highest care referral rate in country
Sue Kent

2 April – The Daily Telegraph – Gove accused of exaggerating race role in adoption delays
BASW spokesperson: Nushra Mansuri

3 April – CYP Now – Under closer (Ofsted) inspection
Nushra Mansuri

10 April – Community Care – Why social workers should oppose child x-ray trial
Sue Kent

11 April – BBC News channel & Radio 4 News – Cafcass care figures at record high
Hilton Dawson

11 April – BBC 5Live Shelagh Fogarty show – Caseloads rise post Baby P
Sue Kent

11 April – The Daily Mail – 10,000 children taken into care: Numbers have doubled in the past four years
Sue Kent

12 April – The Independent – Foster system at breaking point as 10,000 children a year await help
Sue Kent

12 April – The Daily Telegraph – Baby P case leads to surge in applications to remove children
Sue Kent

12 April – Belfast Telegraph – Troubled 13-year-old girl threw knives at children's home staff, court is told
Hilton Dawson

16 April – Belfast Telegraph – (QUB research shows) Cuts put children at risk
Nushra Mansuri

16 April – BBC Radio Devon – 2 out of 5 children at risk in Torbay not being seen within 10 day target
Sue Kent

26 April – Huffington Post: Cheer Up Rupert, At Least You Won't End Up in a Care Home
Hayley Meachin

19 March – Community Care – Scrapping national pay deal could prompt social worker shortages
Ruth Cartwright

20 March – Huffington Post – World Social Work Day 2012: Do Children in Care Get a Better Deal in Other Countries?
Hayley Meachin

21 March – Community Care – Fear over plans to privatise child mental health service
Nushra Mansuri

23 March – The Guardian – Social Worker role under threat
Hilton Dawson

3 February – Birmingham Post – Backing for new Director of Children's Services at Birmingham City Council
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

6 February – The Guardian – Ministers 'grandstanding' over parental access proposals
Hilton Dawson

8 February – Community Care – Government's "nonsensical" family justice plans will set social workers up to fail
Nushra Mansuri

10 February – ITV This Morning – Denise Robertson Vs. Social Services
Nushra Mansuri

10 February – Evening Standard – Changing the public's perception of social work
Hilton Dawson

16 February – BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show – Obese woman demanding 50 hours care a week 'went to pop concert'
BASW spokesperson: Ruth Cartwright

02 January – Daily Telegraph – BASW part of joint care system challenge to Cameron
BASW spokesperson: Hilton Dawson

02 January – Guardian – College of Social Work opens doors to members after delay
Hilton Dawson

06 January – Guardian – University of Southampton to scrap social work courses
Fran Fuller

17 January – Huffington Post – Government Cuts: Is Human Decency Next?
Hayley Meachin

11 January – Community Care – Debt-ridden social workers turning to payday loansSimon Cole, Social Workers’ Benevolent Trust

15 January – The Sunday Express (Scotland) – Desperate public sector staff take payday loans
Simon Cole, Social Workers’ Benevolent Trust