Whilst there is great news about the vaccine, the fallout from COVID-19 will still continue and we must be prepared to use our collective voice to speak up about the direction we want this country to...
Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week
Recently retired Colin Fraser won this year's Mental Health Officer of the Year Award at our annual MHO Conference...
BASW has created a simple step-by-step guide for members who would like to support the campaign by contacting their local MP.
The major announcement from the conference was that all health and care workers in Scotland are to be given a £500 payment in reward for their work during the pandemic.
Ubuntu: I am Because We are – Strengthening Social Solidarity and Global Connectedness
In this video, social worker Heidi Henderson, talks of hope and humanity and discusses her journey in social work which began in South Africa.
This survey is open to all social workers
Read the letter in full.
This week was particularly busy as the outcome of the Spending Review was announced by the Chancellor on Wednesday, which spurred many organisations and politicians across the country into...
BASW England welcomes the candid analysis in ADASS' recently released report Themes and Learning from ADASS Members on the Local Response to COVID-19 in Spring and Early Summer 2020...
Find all of the links and resources mentioned during the BASW England Relationship-based Practice Week Events
BASW England supported major event in the social work calendar to celebrate the unique contribution and diversity of the social work community.
Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week.
If EU citizens want to stay in the UK beyond 31 June 2021, they and their close family members will need to apply to the UK Government’s EU Settlement Scheme, demonstrating proof of identity and...
BASW Cymru response to the Chancellor of Exchequer’s spending review
Julie Morgan AS/MS, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, confirms social workers in Wales are integral to ensuring the wellbeing of residents in residential care and should be recognised...
BASW is fundraising to to support homeless shelters across the UK by sharing festive wishes with a specially designed Clare in the Community eCard by Harry Venning.
The five key requirements to enhance and future proof social work services, and improve the lives of people in need of them
BASW England, with many others, we were part of the campaign to reinstate the rights of children in care lost through Statutory Instrument 445
The Wales’ Anti-Poverty Coalition, of which BASW Cymru is a member, has written to the Welsh First Minister
The 80-20 campaign is all about getting back to our social work roots by creating more time for relationship-based practice.
Social workers are seeing the most vulnerable in society going without the care and support they need.
Last week I gave a talk to the Academy of Social Justice about Living Our Values: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in BASW - the sad fact is we are still a fair way from fully embedding equality,...
Share your views in this questionnaire as part of undergraduate student Sinead Stapleton's dissertation research...
Today’s reports suggesting a public sector pay freeze in next week’s Spending Review will comes as a disappointing blow for frontline staff, including social workers, who have been toiling to deliver...
A group of royal colleges and professional bodies, including BASW Cymru, has written to Vaughan Gething MS, Minister for Health and Social Services in the Welsh National Assembly.
BASW has been concerned that private companies would be carrying out interviews with those who were seeking asylum and were or claimed to be under 18, without appropriate expertise or staff.
It was clear that BASW has built some very important relationships within Europe which I see as contributing positively to the developing future and ongoing progression of Social Work.
Current Chair shares some of the great work the London Branch have achieved so far
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.
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
New episodes will be available fortnightly on Fridays and are available to stream on all major podcast platforms.
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
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.
