End Austerity Now: National Demonstration Saturday 20 June 2015 Date: Saturday 20 June 2015 at 12.00pm Meeting point: the Social Workers & Service Users Against Austerity bloc will meet in...
Robin Moulster (BASW Cymru Country Manager), Cath Taffurelli (BASW Cymru Chairperson) and social work students supported the People’s Assembly Austerity March in Swansea on 14 June. Despite the...
Wales’ Minister for Health and Social Services Mark Drakeford urged practitioners to consider what social work is for and what it should be doing. Speaking at BASW Cymru’s annual conference, he...
Social workers must employ the same skills they use with clients to forge strong collaborative relationships with other professionals. The message was spelt out to practitioners during a workshop...
Being a social worker is more than having the title and being professionally registered, said BASW’s Chief Executive Bridget Robb. Speaking at BASW Cymru’s annual conference, Ms Robb said it was...
BASW England is urging all social workers, regardless of which area they work in, to respond to the review on the impact and effectiveness of The Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF).
End Austerity Now Demo, Swansea, Wales: Saturday 13 June 2015 at 12.30pm The Swansea People’s Assembly has organised a march to show that the people of Swansea and West Wales are against the...
Scotland United Against Austerity, George Square, Glasgow: Demonstration Saturday 20 June 2015 The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) is organising a demonstration on the streets of Glasgow to...
The NSPCC wants to better understand the issues and the pressures facing people who work in the children’s sector and is setting up a UK-wide panel made up of social workers, school nurses, health...
BASW is hosting a Twitter debate on the social worker’s role in the age assessment of asylum seekers on Monday 8 June between 6pm and 8pm.
An executive summary of the SCR undertaken on behalf of Fife and Edinburgh Child Protection Committees into the tragic death of Mikaeel Kular was published on Tuesday 21 April. Mikaeel Kular was...
SASW, at the request of the MHO Forum, wrote to Mr Jamie Hepburn MSP, the minister responsible for mental health, on 12 March. The communication requested his consideration to reflect on the...
Mary Fee, MSP, who chairs the cross party group on supporting children impacted by parental imprisonment, is proposing a Private Members Bill, the Support for Children (Impact of Parental...
We currently have a SASW Criminal Justice Forum, an MHO Forum and an Independents Forum, and for a while we have been talking about setting up a Children and Families Social Work Forum. We would...
The Institute for Research in Social Services (IRISS) have teamed up with The Guardian: The current climate poses both challenges and opportunities. We want to better understand these challenges...
In these days of social media and electronica, there are still plenty of good books being published. The SASW office frequently receives wonderful specimens, which are sent to us for review....
SASW have commented on the proposed guidance to the Children and Young People Act 2014. We welcome what we believe to be good legislation which aims to put the child or young person central to...
Young Carers in Schools is an exciting England-wide initiative that equips schools to support young carers and awards good practice. Run jointly by Carers Trust and The Children’s Society Young...
The head of the British Association of Social Workers warned against the care of vulnerable people being “handed over” to private companies. Bridget Robb said social work was facing a time of “...
Social workers must collectively speak out as a profession against the damage austerity is doing to society’s most vulnerable citizens, the Chair of the British Association of Social Workers said...
The mental health of social workers is being put at risk amid a harsh employment environment characterised by rising caseloads and excessively long hours. That was the warning from Bridget Robb...
We have great pleasure in being able to present to the BASW membership our proposed statement of a vision for the future of BASW as a member-led organisation. Please click here to read the full...
NIASW have delivered a series of Practice Development Days at Queen’s and Ulster Universities during this academic year. This culminated with the final day “Social Work as a Profession” where...
NIASW Committee Vacancies.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) have published a special issue on Dialogical Practices which offers a fresh and diverse collection of papers exploring dialogical...
Social workers from across Europe will be turning up at workplaces within the UK for a series of seminars on the final day of the IFSW European Conference and Social Services Expo in September....
BASW's Project Group on Assisted Reproduction (PROGAR) is proudly celebrating the tenth anniversary of the lifting of donor anonymity for all sperm, egg and embryo donors whose donation is used to...
On 17 March, World Social Work Day, SASW held its annual awards evening. We were delighted to be able to award Lecturer, Alyson Leslie from Dundee University, Practice Teacher, Moira Harris from...
The launch of the strategy, also reported on in PSW Scotland was an uplifting afternoon on World Social Work Day. We heard from many speakers, including SASW Manager Trisha Hall. The ones that...
Two Edinburgh social workers have had a contempt of court conviction quashed. They were convicted of this charge in December 2013, when a sheriff found they had acted unlawfully in respect of a...
Skills for Care have announced that they have won the Department of Education (DfE) contract to support employers of child and family social workers completing their funded Assessed and Supported...
To mark the centenary of social work at Edinburgh in 2018 the University of Edinburgh is offering a full-time research post within the School of Social and Political Science. This three-year...
To mark World Social Work Day, BASW England Patron Jenny Molloy shared her story with The Guardian about how social work shaped her life. The article is titled The social worker who changed my life...
BASW England Country Update BASW England membership BASW England membership continues to grow; we currently have 13,721 members and BASW’s overall membership stands at 17,016. This is a...
An insight into how to identify and deal with abuse due to spirit possession and witchcraft was gained at an event by the British Association of Social Workers to mark World Social Work Day....
Platinum, indie rock band cousins, James and Rab Allan from the Glaswegian act Glasvegas put in a surprise performance last night at the Scottish Association of Social Work’s (SASW) annual awards...
Today the Department of Health has published its response to the consultation on the knowledge and skills required for social work with adults. The statement issued by the Chief Social Worker for...
Volume 2, Issue 1 now available
Plans to criminalise social workers by charging them with ‘wilful neglect’ will set recruitment to the profession back years. The warning came from Guy Shennan, Chair of the British Association...
Advice to BASW/SWU members re: proposed public sector industrial action 13 March
BASW is the largest professional association for social work in the UK and aims to promote the best possible social work services for all people who may need them, while also securing the well-...
How is austerity impacting upon social work in Spain and what ethical dilemmas are faced by Croatian social workers in criminal justice? How is Denmark working with young adults and Sweden...
The Prime Minister will reveal a package of new measures to combat child sexual exploitation (CSE) at a summit bringing together leaders from local authorities, children's services, health...
The Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board (OSCB) has today published its serious case review (SCR) into the services provided to the victims of seven men convicted in 2013 of 59 offences of child...
On World Social Work Day, 17 March this year, SASW is part of a group of partners who are launching the Scottish Social Services Strategy for the next five years. The launch will take place in...
On World Social Work Day, 17 March, we are as always, announcing the winners of our Awards. This year we are able to award the Practice Teacher, SW Lecturer, and Social Worker of the Year Award, at...
On Tuesday February 17, Trisha Hall attended the above Parliamentary reception, sponsored by Kenny MacAskill MSP. These events in the early evening within our Scottish Parliament are usually...
SASW supported the campaign which opposed the building of a major new prison for women offenders in Inverclyde, and we were pleased to note its success. We are not suggesting that custodial options...
Opportunity for a PhD Studentship in: The Making of Professional Identity for Social Work. Applications are invited for a full-time PhD research studentship within the Department of Psychology,...
Chief Social Worker for Children and Families Isabelle Trowler has written a letter on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan to: directors of children’s services chief...
The Mental Welfare Commission held their annual day with Social Work Lead Officers for mental health, learning disability and related services on 20 February. George Kappler, Executive Director (...
Rory Truell, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Social Workers, recently travelled to Palestine and met the family of social worker Hashem Abu Maria, killed last year in the West...
Commission to Review the Provision of Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland The Royal College of Psychiatrists are pleased to announce the launch of...
As Chancellor George Osborne today signs off a £6bn deal dubbed ‘Devo Manc’ to give Greater Manchester control of its health budget, BASW professional officer Joe Godden assesses the pros and cons.
UK university social work departments have now received feedback on the quality of the research they submitted to the Higher Education Funding Council REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2014, an...
Following claims by a former senior social worker that police failed to act on child abuse allegations in Nottinghamshire care homes on number of occasions, BASW has welcomed the shift to a ‘culture...
BASW membership has passed 17,000 for the first time in the Association’s history, with record numbers in all four UK countries.
BASW England membership BASW England membership continues to grow; we currently have 13,721 members and BASW’s overall membership stands at 17,016. This is a fantastic achievement and a direct...