BASW 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...
A social work student who was convicted of a string of frauds totalling more than £70,000 has been removed from the social care register.
The Interim Board of the College of Social Work is looking for ten volunteers to lead the initial development of a college and BASW is keen to ensure that independent members are involved in order to...
Plans 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.
New figures show a marked upturn in students joining social work degree courses in Scotland, according to the Scottish Social Services Council.
Thousands of older people’s lives could be placed at risk if social care budgets are slashed in tomorrow’s Budget, Age UK has warned.
Long-serving social workers at Nottinghamshire county council have had their annual leave cut by three days.
A 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.
BASW has welcomed a report that says social workers could not have anticipated Shannon Matthews’s abduction or her mother’s involvement in it.
A new website offering social workers practical advice on human rights has been launched by two leading global social work organisations.
BASW issued a firm welcome to a UK government plan to publish serious case reviews in full, with identifying details removed.
The £23 million local social work improvement fund will be available to local authority children’s services in 2010-11, the new Department for Education has confirmed in a written parliamentary...
The poor and vulnerable are being forced to bear the costs of bailing out the banks, International Federation of Social Workers president David Jones told the World Conference on Social Work in Hong...
A social worker has been removed from the social care register for frequently accessing pornography at work during his time employed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.
A top United Nations official has called on social workers to collaborate with the UN on achieving the millennium development goals to cut world poverty.
Local authorities could see an increase of more than a third in the number of children going into the care system in 2011-2012 based on predictions from recent increases in child protection referrals...
A new review of child protection work promises to cut down on the paperwork confronting social workers in their jobs.
The coalition government has controversially decided to press ahead with plans to cap the court fees for independent social workers (ISWs), BASW Online has learned.
More than 2,500 social workers from across the globe are coming together this week at the Joint World Conference in Hong Kong.