Interim report sets out challenges facing the sector
Ray Jones sees a link between shamed BBC journalist Martin Bashir's interview with Princess Diana and the reporting of social work in the 'Baby P' case...
Expressions of interest sought to set up new support network
Sacha Samms, a former looked-after child and social worker, explains why she has concerns about independent fostering agencies profiting from children
A social worker speaks of her concerns as the coronavirus crisis in India deepens
MPs demand action to 'restore residents' human rights' ...
BASW England's Children and Families group gains assurances after meeting but still has concerns...
The Social Workers' Benevolent Trust is urging practitioners to complete its health and wellbeing study...
Figures show significant increase in mental health and domestic abuse referrals and child safeguarding calls
Isabelle Trowler highlights "shocking" online abuse during event to mark International Women's Day...
Change will only happen if more people understand the reality, say speakers at BASW Northern Ireland's World Social Work Month event...
Natalia Phillips says its time for social workers to work together against the social divisions, marginalisation of minority groups amplified by the pandemic
A poem by BASW member Natalia Phillips penned during Covid-19
Practitioners, academics, people with lived experience and students launch campaign
Richard Servian reflects on how the spirit of this year’s theme for World Social Work Day runs deep through his family and contributed to him becoming a social worker
Academic Zoe Thomas on why she's backing a day of action by students, other academics and practitioners on 19 March calling for anti-racism to be taught on social work courses and in practice ...
Holocaust survivor and Jewish resistance fighter Lea Borgenicht’s message for social work
An ageing population means practitioners are more likely to work with people experiencing what’s fast becoming no longer a ‘minority impairment’. By Jacqui Bond and Liz Duncan and Peter Simcock
BASW's advice and representation service writes to regulator as patience over delays in processing cases runs out...
Ray Jones calls for some 'quick-rethinking' to ensure the voice of the care experienced community and those who work with them leads the review rather than the agenda of politicians ...
Ali Sea found accepting support, letting go of guilt and even dancing occasionally have helped
Wayne Reid tells PSW of the motivation behind him becoming BASW's first anti-racism lead officer...
Social worker David Stakes on why every practitioner should read the Booker Prize-winning novel
PSW takes a look at the seven core themes outlined in the terms of reference ...
During Children's Mental Health Week, Emily Aklan says the unnecessary and unregulated physical restraining of children is a shocking practice that must be addressed...
Isabelle Trowler, England's chief social worker, spoke movingly about losing her mother to coronavirus...
The use of personal protective equipment is a complex issue and much less straightforward for social workers than the government would have us think, says senior practitioner Colin Mabbutt as he...
BASW England professional officer and activist Wayne Reid on why social work must continue to promote anti-racism long after the media focus on Black Lives Matter has gone
Honorary member Chris Perry was present at the birth of BASW. As the association celebrates its 50th year, he reflects on how it and the profession has changed – and what being a member has meant to...
For Disability History Month and to mark 25 years since the Disability Discrimination Act came into being, practitioner Vikki Walton-Cole shares her vision of what an inclusive social work profession...
An all-Ireland study provides an interesting insight into how social workers see themselves
An agency advert suggesting fosterers can relinquish responsibility for fostered children when they turn 18 caused upset. Here Rebekah Pierre, who spent time in care as a child, explains why
The global pandemic has shown that disaster work should be a core social work skill, says Lena Dominelli as she launches a new CPD programme and a MSc to plug the gap
Agency under fire for suggesting people in foster care will be 'moved out' to state support soon as they turn 18 ...
With lockdown 2 in England from today and restrictions in play across the UK, social worker Naomi Coupland shares lessons from lockdown 1
Stella Murray's powerful and moving account of working as a palliative care social worker...
As Black History Month comes to an end, BASW Cymru chair Neeta Baicher says tackling racism and prejudice has to be about more than words
Mariah Wilde, a graduate from England’s mental health social work programme Think Ahead, on her journey so far…
Social work education should be leading the way in challenging 'white privilege' in academia but is not, says a black social work lecturer...
Ahead of Book Week Scotland, social work academics Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Ariane Critchley look at what poetry has to teach social workers
A poem about being a black social worker by Julian Blake
As ministers reject free holiday school meals for the most disadvantaged in England
Maggie Fogarty reviews Radio 4's The Spark with QC Chris Daw who believes prisons do more harm than good...
As part of Black History Month, two white social workers discuss their privilege
With new lockdowns set to reduce face-to-face visits again, social work poet Peter Unwin put pen to paper
Leanne Ling describes her daily struggle and the techiques that help her cope
As a single dad on benefits, social work student Dominic Watters knows all too well the reality of food insecurity
From social isolation to restrictions in care homes, Covid is having a major impact
Emergency advisory group missing our knowledge and understanding of communities and human behaviour, says profession
Social worker Sally Redman* gives a powerfully honest account, describing her journey to recovery and what employers can do to help ...
With a pandemic winter approaching the crisis in social care will no doubt become a hot topic again. Will social work’s role be recognised in the government’s long-awaited proposals to reform social...
Keep children centres open, uphold rights, continue social worker visits and maintain respite services, urges England's chlidren's commissioner...
Community demands apology from Priti Patel for "unacceptable and discriminatory" comments...
Social work lecturer Zoe Thomas shares findings from her research
Scotland’s drug deaths reinforce the need for a significant rethink of substance misuse policy, writes Alison Bavidge
Campaigners against controversial measures introduced during lockdown say they lack confidence in Department of Education consultation on extending them beyond end of September
With male suicide at a two-decade high and accounting for three-quarters of all those taking their life in England and Wales, social work student Ashleigh Gonera wrote the following poem to highlight...
PSW reviews Radio 4's Start of the Week on Meritocracy and inequality...
