A humanitarian charity is to launch the UK’s first dedicated programme to tackle the shortage of Muslim applicants to adopt children. The Penny Appeal, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has won £...
Resources around young children's listening and participation from the National Children's Bureau. Includes a set of eight leaflets on a range of topics, containing details of research, practice and...
The international award-winning film director, Ken Loach, has endorsed Boot Out Austerity!, in which a group of social workers will be walking 100 miles from Birmingham to Liverpool later this month...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have released ten films as part of the Heads Together mental health campaign. The films feature people from all walks of life talking, often with...
Out of the Blue is a series of films, created by Best Beginnings, to help take the country to the Tipping Point where everyone knows that mental health is as important as physical health. In Baby...
This Mental Elf blog post reviews a recent qualitative study of fathers’ views and experiences of their own perinatal mental health, published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth: Fathers’ views and...
Seventy organisations across the country will share £12 million from the Tampon Tax Fund, helping to improve the lives of disadvantaged women and girls across the country.
This guidance on listening to young disabled children, includes inspiring examples of listening practice and significant updates on policy following the Children and Families Act, 2014. It's a must-...
BASW would like to pledge support for Reker Ahmed, a 17 year old asylum seeker who was attacked in Croydon on 31 March. We are deeply saddened by Reker’s ordeal.
As we get older, volunteering is increasingly seen as an enabler of a happy and healthy life. Despite this, intensive volunteering placements for the over 50s are relatively rare in the UK. In order...
Last November, the Realising the Value programme published its final reports. Now is a good time to look back on the work we have done. Realising the Value aimed to enable people to take an active...
Gransnet conducted a survey in association with the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, and the results reveal worrying findings when it comes to the older generation. Over half (56%) of Gransnet users...
The NSPCC has released figures which show that the number of child sex offences recorded by police forces in the UK rose to 55,507 in the last year, an increase of almost a fifth from the previous...
press release on the day of our 2016 Awards- World SW Day 2017
At a time when there is increasing pressure to do more with less across our public services, the need to find better models of service delivery and ways to reduce cost could not be more pressing. So...
Together with the Office for Civil Society, NESTA have funded five organisations who will test just that - new intensive volunteering opportunities for people aged 50 and above, working alongside...
This analysis of NHS planning guidance finds that what is currently being asked of NHS trusts in the coming financial year is not deliverable in the context of lower funding increases for the NHS....
At a time of threat to the UN's post-war ideals of international cooperation, BASW Chief Executive Dr Ruth Allen says social work's international dimension has never been more needed Happy...
From front line practitioner to Pratice Educator, BASW member Michaela Horan has seen all sides of social work. Here, she pays tribute to a profession she describes as "curious, rich and frankly,...
Childline has launched an app that is the first to provide counselling to young people in need of help directly through their mobile devices. The app has been named 'For Me' to ensure that it can be...