The National Assembly for Wales Children, Young People and Education Committee released the results of their inquiry called Mind over matter in April 2018.
Their report, Insult and Injury, presents the results of a survey open to all social workers in Northern Ireland. Eighty-six per cent of those who took part have experienced intimidation, seventy-...
This is my last blog post as BASW Chair, and I am pleased and honoured that it has been jointly written with Becki Meakin, the general manager of Shaping Our Lives, a national network of service...
We are delighted to launch the newly refreshed BASW logo and new BASW website, which have been developed to deliver on our 2020 vision, to build membership services and strengthen our standing in the...
Social Workers spend too much doing admin
This penultimate Chair’s Blog post has been jointly written with Karen*, a young mother whose child was removed from her care, who I have previously interviewed for an article in BASW’s Professional...
Ruth Shipstone who won Practice Teacher of the Year at the SASW Social Work Awards on World Social Work Day, reflects on her journey into Practice Teaching and how it felt to win.
New chief executive of Social Work England urged to work with BASW England to promote excellent social work practice
South Wales Independents Meeting Future Inn, Cardiff 25/05/2018 Dr Christian Beech – Academic Regulation v Professional Regulation CB facilitated a conversation around the failing students...
The Welsh Government has published three consultations relating to Phase 3 of implementation of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016. The Act establishes a new system...
Your opportunity to influence research priorities
Blog post from the Manager of Dundee City Council's 'Children with Disabilities' Team, who were given a special award for leadership in social work on World Social Work Day.
During the first part of my time as Chair I had the pleasure of working alongside Luke Geoghegan, who was elected to Council at the same time as me, as Chair of the Finance and Human Resources...
NIASW welcomes Attorney General’s assurances that social workers are “highly unlikely” to fall foul of Universal Credit’s ‘rape clause’
Here you will find the latest news, information and resources from the ongoing BASW England 80-20 Campaign to improve working conditions for social workers and drive better outcomes for children
Social Work England advertise for five Executive Director roles
Co-production at the heart of BASW Cymru Time for the latest blog post from BASW Cymru and the subject of this one is co-production. Anyone practising in Wales will be very familiar with the...
The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW) welcomes the publication of guidance by the Attorney General which provides assurance—that in the vast majority of cases—a social worker...
“The system is cruel and needs to be reversed”: BASW comments on new research into benefits sanctions
Jessica Proctor, who has highly commended at the SASW Social Work Awards on World Social Work Day 2018 in the category for Practice Teacher of the Year, writes about her experience.
