It’s been a busy week for BASW, with yesterday’s AGM and conference, plus the latest Boot Out Austerity walk, all hosted by our Cymru branch
Consultation on behalf of Social work England
The Care Crisis Review report highlights a number of complex social, political, economic, practice and leadership factors that are contributing to the increase of children entering the care system...
Social workers march 15 miles in protest against austerity policies ahead of BASW’s AGM.
BASW member, Beverley Barnett, is to receive an MBE at the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2018. Here she tells her story.
A tribute to Ian Ellison - a previous BASW Cymru committee member until 2016 and former member of BASW Council.
BASW Cymru welcomes the publishing of Welsh Government’s much awaited report: ‘A Healthier Wales: our plan for Health and Social Care’ which is published in response to the recent Parliamentary...
Consultation regarding proposed changes of rules and requirements to social work education.
Social care for adults contributes more than £2 billion to the Welsh economy and creates jobs for 127,000 people, a new study has found.
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Lord Patel of Bradford OBE, Chair of Social Work England was invited by the BASW England National Standing Committee to visit BASW Head Office on the 30th May 2018 to meet with committee members and...
The Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care have published the Government’s response to the consultation on the regulatory framework for the new specialist regulator...
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
