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Sensationalist and stereotyped reporting of sex offenders will not help us to comprehend their behaviour - instead it actually makes it harder to protect children, argues BASW's press officer in the...
Social worker Janet Foulds writes on the release of the PACT/ CEOP report Taken,which calls for a revamp of ‘stranger-danger’ warnings in the wake of findings which show that in 42 per cent of police...
Too much paperwork? Difficulties around responding to crisis? Erosion of social work status? NIASW's adult services survey is now completed. NIASW are organising consultation meetings around...
Mae cryn ddiddordeb wedi cael ei greu yn ein Cynhadledd Flynyddol ar Ddiogelu sydd i’w gynnal yng Nghanolfan Catrin Finch, Prifysgol Glyndŵr, Wrecsam ar 12 Mehefin. Er hyn, mae yna le dal i fod ar...
It may be hard to believe that we are half way through 2013 already but looking back it has been a really productive year so far for NIASW. We are determined to keep up that trend and make even more...
The month before the school summer holidays always seems a busy time as we try and clear our desks to take that much needed recreation time before the Autumn settles in, which as gardening books will...
Sadly child sexual exploitation is in the news wherever we look at the moment, whether in relation to criminal trials concerning the murder of young girls, the prosecution of gangs of men (Oxford...
BASW Chief Executive Bridget Robb offers some early advice to the two newly-appointed Chief Social Workers in England "The long awaited announcements of Lyn Romeo and Isabelle Trowler as the Chief...
BASW responded to the launch of Frontline, a fast-track training model for “high-flying” graduates, with nationwide media appearances expressing concern at the tight timescale proposed for preparing...
In a hectic week of announcements the Westminster Department of Education revealed that Isabelle Trowler, former Assistant Director for Children’s Social Care in Hackney, would be the new Chief...
BASW has urged the newly appointed Chief Social Worker for Adults in England, Lyn Romeo, to work closely with her soon to be revealed counterpart for children if she is to make the role a success. As...
The newly appointed Chief Social Worker for Children and a fast-track training model for high-flying graduates each have the potential to improve social work in England but must not go the way of...
SASW backed an open letter to MSPs in the Scottish Parliament expressing strong opposition to a provision of the Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Bill that would bar anyone in prison from...
The political proposals affecting how people access integrated services has been the main debate in Scotland Committee who have taken it out to local meetings, discussed in our magazines and e-...
Commenting on the New ‘Passport to Support’ for adopters, Nushra Mansuri, professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers, said: “The new “adoption passport” is a step in the right...
But SASW expressed concern at the potential for confusion in a separate proposal for a named person, such as a health worker, to be allocated to every child from birth “to safeguard and support their...
The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW – part of BASW) has handed the minister responsible for social work a report containing a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the...
As the Care Inquiry publishes its findings of an eight-month inquiry into the care system by eight leading children’s charities, including the Fostering Network, TACT and the British Association for...
Welsh Asian women Achievement Awards 2013 This prestigious annual event was held at the City Hall in Cardiff on Saturday 27th April. With 280 people in attendance, there was plenty of celebration...
BASW Cymru welcomed the unveiling of a blueprint to create a “flagship” National Adoption Service for Wales, but warned it must not be viewed as an excuse for cost-cutting.
Michael Gove has had a stupendously busy month, fairly cavorting his way over the top of one educational sacred cow after another. The Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts this week went so far as to describe...
A BASW survey suggests widespread lack of awareness of the Assessed and Supported Year of Employment (ASYE) in England, six months on from the launch of the scheme aimed at supporting newly qualified...
BASW professional officer Joe Godden on Labour’s plans to launch an independent commission led by former Department of Health specialist Sir John Oldham to investigate how best to integrate health...
As Alan Milburn and Baroness Shephard, chairman and deputy chairman of a new Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission call on Government to do more to meet the global 2020 target on child poverty...
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...