SASW is hosting a series of online discussion events throughout summer on the National Care Service Bill. There will be an opportunity to learn more about the National Care Service Bill, ask...
This week's highlights at Holyrood..... The final week of the parliamentary term was predictably busy as MSPs rushed to get business finished before returning to their constituencies for summer...
SASW has engaged with Stuart McMillan MSP to campaign for an increase in the mileage allowance for social workers. As a result, Mr McMillan has written to the Finance Secretary and the UK Chancellor...
Allison Hulmes, BASW Cymru National Director, reflects on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month 2022
There are two proposed MSP Member Bills currently seeking feedback from the public. A Members' Bill is introduced by an MSP who is not a Scottish Government Minister. Before it can get formally...
This legislation criminalises the way of life of Gypsy and Traveller communities - and we also have major concerns around changes to the right to protest.
These legislative proposals will roll back human rights rather than uphold them.
Key stakeholders and leaders in the social care and social work sector have come together to start exploring alternative approaches to how care and support could be accessed across Scotland. The...
SWBT provides support to social workers facing financial hardship.
“I cannot rate the coaching session I took part in highly enough. It was the most reflective discussion I have had in the past decade in social work, and I came away with a renewed sense of...
This week, SASW National Director, Alison Bavidge met with the Convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security and Social Justice Committee, Elena Whitham MSP to discuss tackling poverty in...
Wales has implemented new laws on ending the physical punishment of children, and England needs to enact similar legislative changes.
The Scottish Government has introduced its National Care Service Bill to parliament. Creating a National Care Service (NCS) was one of the key policies put forward by the SNP in their manifesto for...
This summary report brings together our ‘Racism in Social Work’ survey findings, conducted across Wales last year. The survey was developed by the BASW Cymru Anti-Racist Social Work Practice Group...
Hundreds of social workers from around the UK attended our Annual Conference, which was held at the University of Birmingham.
SASW is backing calls for a radically new Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy in Scotland. As one of 17 member organisations in Scotland's Mental Health Partnership, SASW supported the publication...
In her first statement as Chair of BASW, Julia Ross said: " A child's death is an appalling and dreadful tragedy, but in the cases where social work in involved the blaming or even naming...
Kerri Prince, BASW UK Public and Political Affairs Lead, provides an update from Westminster.
BASW will continue to advocate and lobby for the human rights of all refugees and migrants.
This year's theme is #WhatMakesAHome...
