SASW writes to Cabinet Secretary for Justice amidst ongoing community service hour backlog.
This latest information paints an increasingly stark and concerning picture about the way that people with learning disabilities have been treated throughout the first wave of the pandemic.
From the outset, BASW has viewed the proposed role for care home managers as unworkable and is pleased to see the government’s recognition of sector opposition to the proposal.
Felicity Brown is the lucky 14,000 member and will be receiving a gift from SWU to celebrate such an incredible milestone.
There are calls from across Parliament to recognise that people living in care and health settings need to see their loved ones through family member and social worker visits.
Our profession remains strong and sustained by the ethics and purpose that we share with our sister organisations across the globe.
Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week.
The online event, which takes place on 4 December, aims to promote the self-care and wellbeing of social workers in Scotland.
BASW Cymru is working with Rhun ap Iorwerth MS, Health and Social Services Lead for Plaid Cymru, on changing the latest guidance around care home visits in Wales.
Read Meryl Williams' blog on how the pilot is developing...
As social workers we will often see, first-hand, what poverty can do to children and their families.
The new Scottish Act removes any doubt that physical discipline is not acceptable and can only assist social workers when doing multifaceted assessments of families.
Recognising the unique and important contribution that social workers make during lockdown and beyond
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Kerri Prince, Public and Political Affairs Lead for BASW UK, provides members with an update from Westminster.
Click here to read the Manifesto in full and to download your copy Click here to download the Maniffesto in Welsh - fersiwn Gymraeg For social workers to fulfil their potential and make a positive...
Safe access to care and health settings for social workers as professional visitors is essential
Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week
Today, BASW England and BASW Cymru have jointly launched a new campaign to change national guidelines for social workers to get regular, safe access to health and care settings, so they can carry out...
BASW continues to stand against antisemitism and all forms of ethnic and religious discrimination, both direct and indirect.
Russell Hogarth, who sits on the BASW at 50 years steering group, shares his own personal experiences of 'lockdowns' and contrasts them with the experience of Covid-19 restrictions...
Black History Month maybe over as a calendar event, but Black History didn't start nor ends in October. So here is another piece from the Black Professionals Symposium group...
BASW England Professional Officer Gavin Moorghen reflects on the growing issue of child food poverty in England and invites members to join an online event to consider possible solutions and our...
Black Lives Matter: No more silence! A poem by Maureen Mguni for Black History Month, looking back over a turbulent year
Share your views on issues that affect you in our new Question of the Month"...
Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week in the first of our new weekly roundups.
Ruth Allen discusses the results of the recent BASW member survey - including where members think BASW is doing well, areas for improvement, and a series of actions and commitments from BASW in...
Kerri Prince, Public and Political Affairs Lead for BASW UK, provides an update from Westminster.
Central to the Shaping Social Workers’ Identity all-Ireland study is exploring whether the diversity of social work practice affects the professional identity of social work practitioners.
Dr Rukhsana Farooqi and Dr Helen Woods join the BASW England Criminal Justice Group
The government needs to work more collaboratively, compassionately and transparently with Black and Ethnic Minority communities in order to recognise broken trust and structural inequalities
Families and foster carers must be able to buy clothes for looked after children who are placed in an emergency
Maris Stratulis has written to the Children’s Minister to urge the government to change its position on free school meals during the school holidays.
The ‘Social Worker Wellbeing and Working Conditions: Good Practice Toolkit’ is continued evidence of the commitment of BASW & SWU to create positive working conditions for Social Workers, but we...
This digital edition focuses on the key legislation and policy landmarks in the profession since 1970, as well as the examination of the response of social work practice and social work as a...
Coronavirus: During lockdown, there has been a worrying rise in the number of referrals to child protection unit
It is so important that we celebrate and commemorate our history and those who have gone before us, whose giant shoulders we all stand on
I am requesting that the government revisit the free school meal decision in reconsidering the issue of food poverty and how it impacts the most disadvantaged
This latest report shows ongoing evidence of excessive use of prolonged and long-term seclusion, segregation, restraint and human rights violations and abuse, alongside examples of undignified and...
Health and Social Care Committee report urges immediate action to address the social care crisis with calls for sustained investment as the pandemic brings the crisis into stark focus.
