SASW Scotland BASW Uk Report May April 2013 Annual Members Meeting MHO Study Day Legislation and policy developments
NIASW was very proud to deliver our report ‘Reducing Bureaucracy in Child Care Social Work’ to Minister Edwin Poots on 28 March. In it we detailed how the profession would change the current system...
None of us could have failed to have been moved last month as a verdict was reached in the Philpott trial where six children tragically lost their lives as a result of arson committed by Mick and...
Decisions, Decisions will be aired on BBC Radio Wales 1.30pm Sunday 21 April, where Ian Woolrich (BASW Cymru Ambassador, Committee Member and ex-Chairperson of BASW Cymru) discusses the issue of...
Activity in Wales continues at a ‘cracking’ pace as we continue to influence in a whole range of ways and settings. Most importantly, we are here to support you with your issues and concerns, in...
BASW has described Ofsted’s decision to inspect local authority child protection and services for children who are looked after under a single, combined framework as “puzzling”, and urges the...
Following reports of the Department for Education’s (DfE) decision to pull funding from the Children’s Improvement Board (CIB), BASW has described it as a “callous move” that constitutes a major blow...
You may have noticed that a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has died, eliciting in death a similar combination of opprobrium and fervour as in her 11 years of power. Like millions of...
BASW statement on Sandwell council children's services being rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted.
BASW responds to the Philpott arson case sentencing.
BASW attends New York meeting to mark the 30th Annual Social Work Day at the United Nations.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed a widespread lack of understanding among residential carers about the Mental Capacity Act and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, finding excessive...
O’r diwedd mae’r Gwanwyn wedi cyrraedd. Erbyn i chi ddarllen hwn, bydd grŵp o swyddogion newydd ar y pwyllgor. Ymwelwch â’n gwefan i weld y manylion am y newidiadau yn y swyddogion. Mae’r holl...
Social workers have expressed concern that multi-disciplinary working in mental health services is being eroded under cost-cutting measures which are putting people’s health at risk. A snapshot...
BASW is urging members to take part in a survey to find out if new standards – setting out clear expectations of employers for helping you in your work – are operating effectively. The Advisory...
Write to your Member of Parliament to express concern in the loss of valuable expertise independent social workers bring to the family courts.
As the Government response to the Francis report into care failings at Mid Staffs hospitals is published, the Social Workers Union has echoed the call for whistle blowers to be protected, and said...
Managers operating in the increasing number of specialist teams can be far more effective in supporting colleagues than those in generic departments, Phil Evans, Interim President at the Association...
Social workers at BASW Cymru’s World Social Work Day (WSWD) celebrations in Cardiff were told to resist enforcing decisions they believe are wrong, and to take whatever steps they can on behalf of...
NIASW celebrated World Social Work Day on 19th March 2013 at Titanic Belfast.
Vulnerable people are being “stigmatised” by welfare reforms supported by a public which does not understand their implications, social workers warned.
Scotland’s children’s minister Aileen Campbell used the Scottish Association of Social Work’s (SASW’s) annual awards event to call on Prime Minister David Cameron to rethink welfare reforms, which...
Tribute was paid to the “life changing” work of social workers at the Scottish Association of Social Work Awards yesterday.
Service users across Europe want their social workers to be good listeners, empathetic and politically motivated, a DVD launched to mark World Social Work Day in Northern Ireland has suggested. The...
Personalisation aims to give people greater autonomy over care services by giving them the choice to buy and manage their own budgets. However, Heather Corpe, who suffers from obsessive compulsive...
A new form of Neighbourhood Watch is needed to look out for the most vulnerable as they are hit by a “tsunami” of welfare reform, one of Scotland’s leading social services directors warned.
The vital role that social workers play in reducing inequality was the clear message sounded at BASW’s event to mark World Social Work Day in Westminster.
Social workers could be “obliterated off the map in the UK” if the profession does not stick up for itself and show its worth.
On World Social Work Day, Linda de Chenu, Social Work Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, claims the recently-created Global Agenda for Social Work should serve as a rallying cry for social...
One of the world’s most troubled zones, an estimated 60,000 people have died in Syria since the uprising of March 2011. Save the Children has warned of a “collapse in childhood” in the country, with...
Speaking at a celebration event in Westminster later today, BASW Interim Chief Executive Bridget Robb will tell an audience of MPs and social work professionals that money is not the answer to all of...
The Palestine-UK Social Work Network held a hugely over-subscribed event late last year, an initiative aimed at linking up British and Palestinian social workers. Jointly sponsored by BASW and the...
As a new report from MPs claims the youth justice system is currently failing children in care and care leavers, BASW has reiterated the need to treat looked after children as individuals. The report...
Well we’re finally into Spring. By the time you read this, there will be a new officer group on the committee. Please look at the website for details regarding changes of officers. The whole...
With spring approaching, it is lovely to see a splash of colour as we travel across Northern Ireland. This in some ways reflects how we at NIASW feel. The last few years have been tumultuous to say...
The venue for the CYMRU World Social Work Day Celebration 20th March 2013 has changed to the following: The BASW Cymru Office 1 Caspian Point Pierhead Street Cardiff Bay CF10 4DQ The new...
Public sector cuts risk eroding social cohesion, warns BASW, following concerns raised by the highest judge in the land that cuts to legal aid may see people "take the law into their own hands".
BASW has endorsed a major report that lifts the lid on the lack of multi-agency understanding about how to tackle human slavery and called on social workers to “play their part” to stop this abuse.
BASW has said that difficult questions remain about the approach taken to staff involved in the Baby Peter Connelly case, following today's decision by the Court of Appeal to reject a claim of unfair...
BASW has responded to comments made by home secretary Theresa May that the Government “can only do so much” and that people must speak out against violence against women and girls, with a reminder...