BASW is endorsing a campaign to amend the Care Bill to provide court authorised power of access to safeguard vulnerable adults in their own homes. Campaigners want to end the situation where...
BASW has praised Professor David Croisdale-Appleby’s report Re-visioning social work education: an independent review for its “academic rigour” and depth of engagement with a wide range of...
A recruitment agency that paid qualified social workers little more than a new McDonalds recruit has been removed from a list of government-approved care staff providers in Northern Ireland. The move...
Social work must reassert its “historic battle cry” of standing up for the poor at a time of conflicting professional pressures and a “disastrous squeeze on resources”.
The creation of a Chief Social Worker for England was one of the recommendations of the Social Work Task Force. Last year, the government responded, but to the dismay of some, split the role in two...
On behalf of IFSW, Europe e.V. we want to express our support to Ukrainian people’s struggle for better future. The key role of social workers is to support people who, for whatever reason, are...
BASW England's report for the March PSW.
BASW Cymru's UK report, in Welsh and English, for the March issue of PSW, featuring a range of issues the Association has been engaged in over the past few weeks, as well as things that are coming up...
NIASW report March 2014
SASW's UK report for the March issue of PSW, featuring a range of issues the Association has been engaged in over the past few weeks, as well as things that are coming up soon.
Summary of Sir Martin Narey's recommendations for children's social work training
The future of social work regulation in England has been thrown in doubt after a major report recommended a potential role for The College of Social Work in registering individual social workers.
Social work is a single, internationally recognised profession and the social work role cannot be split into a distinct checklist of skills needed for adults and children’s social work, the British...
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove leapt on one aspect of Sir Martin Narey’s report into the future of children’s social work training to repeat previous assertions that social work...
BASW is concerned that a number of social work employers in England, particularly but not exclusively local authorities, could be acting in contravention of the law in the way they are approaching...
BASW Professional Officer Joe Godden reflects how his family’s experience of persecution in Nazi Germany had a major impact on his life and choice of career.
Fifty years after the Holocaust, the world watched in horror as images of concentration camps and mass graves in mainland Europe once again appeared on our television sets during the war in Bosnia....
The tragic death of the six Philpott children in Derby underlines the “uncomfortable” truth that sometimes it can be impossible to predict risk to children, BASW’s Chief Executive Bridget Robb said.
BASW has welcomed a major report which calls on the Government to examine social work’s often conflicting role as both the key player in helping families to stay together and the enforcer of child...
BASW has described comments made by Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw that social workers need to send out “tough messages” about taking responsibility to parents “who behave badly” as an...
BASW England's report for the February PSW
NIASW's report for February's PSW magazine
Social workers working with children or adults with learning difficulties, autism and challenging behaviour are being asked to contact BASW about their experiences, both good and bad.
Mae’n bur debyg bydd y 12 mis nesaf yn adeg brysur iawn wrth i ni ddisgwyl am fwy o ddatblygiadau gwleidyddol a deddfwriaethol yng Nghymru. Bydd Mesur Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol a Llesiant (Cymru...
SASW's UK report for the February issue of PSW, featuring a range of issues the Association has been engaged in over the past few weeks, as well as things that are coming up soon.
As the public hearings stage of The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) begins, NIASW has described the inquiry as a "watershed moment" for adult survivors of childhood abuse in Northern...
MSPs rejected a number of proposed reforms to the Children and Young People Bill, prompting concern from campaigners who had wanted the legislation to feature a more explicit emphasis on preventative...
NIASW is establishing a dedicated group to support the Association’s contribution to the Northern Ireland Government’s ten year strategy for social work. Improving and Safeguarding Social wellbeing...
Following the untimely death of Paul Goggins MP, BASW Chief Executive Bridget Robb has paid tribute to Paul for his contribution to social work.
An investigation by the Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW – part of BASW) found that First Choice Selection (FCS) pays a newly qualified band 5 social worker just £6.75 an hour,...
SASW has welcomed the Scottish Government’s response to the consultation on overhauling criminal justice social work after ministers backed the retention of a 32 local authority model for delivering...
Laws and policies in Scotland need to be consistently underpinned by human rights, instead of merely acknowledging this agenda as an afterthought. This was the focus of Scotland’s National Action...
SASW is urgently trying to get members to nominate a Social Worker, Residential Care Worker, and Student Social Worker for its 2014 awards, set to be handed out at a ceremony on the evening of World...
SASW has expressed concern at a Scottish Government report which showed that approximately five times as many people used food banks and soup kitchens in the last six months of 2013 than in a whole...
The ambitions of the Social Work Task Force set up to reform social work in England in the wake of Peter Connolly’s death have been hampered by austerity cuts.
Social workers must act within the law, the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) warned after two Edinburgh practitioners were found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to allow a mother...
The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) is the charity which promotes and supports Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). 27 January is the day for everyone to remember the millions of people killed in the...
The “scapegoating” of Sharon Shoesmith is symbolic of the political interference suffered by social workers across the UK, BASW’s Chief Executive Bridget Robb said. Ms Robb claimed there was a “knee-...
As Birmingham City Council unveiled its strategy to improve services for children and young people, BASW called on the Government and its team of advisors sent in to the local authority to support...
As Human Rights Day is celebrated all over the world today, BASW Professional Officer Nushra Mansuri pays tribute to Nelson Mandela. She writes …
Scotland's social work departments are stretched to the limit with more than half already over budget, a survey by The Herald newspaper has revealed. The survey shows a combined overspend of more...
BASW England report – January 2014 ... message from Maris Stratulis (new BASW England Manager), Media Coverage, Alcohol and Other Drugs Special Interest Group Event and Membership Involvement ...
Professional development November was all about identifying and confirming what makes social work unique. The month started with the Social Work Professional Development C12 Conference at the...
Code of conduct It has been clear from all of our contact with you over the past year that the pressures have been plentiful and varied. It is tempting when life is so busy to only focus on the...
Wrth edrych ymlaen at y Nadolig, bydd llawer o bobl Cymru yn parhau i ddioddef mewn tlodi. Tra medrwn ddadlau mai’r unig ffordd i gael gwelliant ‘gyfan gwbl’ effeithiol yw i Lywodraeth San Steffan...
BASW Professional Officer Sue Kent welcomes the news that looked after children can stay with their foster carers up to the age of 21 years rather than be forced to become independent at the age of...
Coventry University is conducting a Ministry of Justice funded research project to investigate how the Changes to the Family Procedure Rules that came into effect in January 2013 and the proposed new...
The ability of social workers to keep children safe from harm has diminished, not improved, in the five years since the convictions in the case of Baby Peter Connelly in Haringey, the All Party...
Bridget Robb's response to media reports of an Italian woman who underwent a caesarean procedure while under sectioned under the Mental Health Act and whose baby remains in the care of Essex County...
BASW’s Chief Executive Bridget Robb praised social workers for not turning away from the people “many would rather forget”. Speaking at the 2013 Social Work of the Year Awards, Ms Robb said...
Statement from the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW - part of BASW), following a helicopter crashing onto The Clutha pub in the city centre on Friday night ...
Un o fanteision allweddol bod yn cynrychioli gwaith cymdeithasol yng Nghymru yw gallu gweithio mewn partneriaeth, sy’n digwydd yn helaeth. Mae hynny’n gallu dod â manteision anferth, yn enwedig...
Responding to media reports that the children's services department in Birmingham City Council could be taken over by the Department for Education (DfE), Bridget Robb, Chief Executive of the British...
Writing for politics.co.uk, BASW Chief Executive Bridget Robb assesses a week of 'Govian spin' and the Department for Education's hijacking of the press conference into the Hamzah Khan Serious Case...
BASW has responded to the Government's strong criticism of the serious case review into the death of four-year-old Bradford boy Hamzah Khan by insisting that confusion over the purpose of such...
Winterbourne View social worker Brian Clarke has been struck off the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Register for his part in failing to act on repeated alerts about the treatment of...
BASW response to Gove's speech at the NSPCC on social work training.
SASW has received assurances from South Ayrshire council that parents struggling with 'bedroom tax' arrears are not being threatened with having their children removed, following a Daily Record...
As the Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) publishes its annual report and statistics, SASW Manager Trisha Hall assesses what the findings say about social work.