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ADCS Safeguarding Pressures Phase 5 – Executive Summary

ADCS Safeguarding Pressures research has provided evidence of trends in safeguarding activity and the provision of services to children and their families based on information from local authorities...

A world of abuse where witchcraft is far more than fiction

Abuse linked to witchcraft or spiritual possession is on the rise and something social workers need increasingly to be able to recognise, as Shahid Naqvi finds out.For most people, witchcraft is the...

A Safer City for Women and Girls

This document is the Mayor of London’s strategy for delivering his vision of a safer London for women and girls, covering the period 2018-2021. It has been produced following an in-depth consultation...

A Preliminary Account of Child Protection Practice With Romani and Traveller Children in England

Child protection services in England work hard to prevent abuse and to stop it quickly when it happens. The harmful risks to children and young people that child protection professionals in England...

A report on the effectiveness of child protection arrangements across Scotland

The Care Inspectorate was asked to report on the effectiveness of adult and child protection arrangements to Scottish Ministers following our inspection year 2013/14. We set about this task by...

A review of the current safeguarding policies, procedures and practice within the Catholic Church in Scotland

Support for survivors of abuse must be an absolute priority for the Catholic Church in Scotland in the field of safeguarding. There are at least three reasons which make this support essential. The...

A Familiar Face: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents

All children have the right to be protected from violence inflicted on them by anyone in their lives – whether parents, teachers, friends, romantic partners or strangers. And all forms of violence...

A profession criminally offended

Plans to jail social workers if found gulity of wilful neglect shocked the profession, setting it on a collision course with the Government. Shahid Naqvi looks at how the sector reacted to the...

A place of greater safety

“As the years went on the abuse continued to become worse. I wasn’t allowed to speak to my children during the evening. He regularly used to turn off the electricity in the evening to prevent any of...

A guide to Getting it right for every child

What Getting it right for every child means for children, young people and their families: They will feel confident about the help they are getting They understand what is happening and why They have...

A place to call home

Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 (‘section 17’ throughout this report) is a statutory provision that provides a lifeline for thousands of otherwise destitute children every year. This safety net...

A father's fight for justice

Should fathers who commit domestic violence be allowed access to their children? A father convicted of assault argues the courts are not always making decisions that put the best interest of children...

A review of current arrangements for the operation of Local Safeguarding Children Boards

The research offers a rich set of data, across a range of areas. The messages that are perhaps most striking to those engaged in debate around LSCBs and their effectiveness centred around four themes...

A review of international survey methodology on child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation

This review was commissioned by the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse to inform its work on improving data currently collected in England and Wales. Unlike previous reviews which have looked...

A Review of the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI)

The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) has been operational for over three years, with its first meeting in October 2012. Its first Chair resigned in October 2014 and was replaced by an...

A Picture of Abuse

This thematic assessment explores the risk of contact child sexual offending posed by those who possess still and moving indecent images of children (‘IIOC’). It looks at the ways in which this risk...

A rapid literature review of evidence on child abuse linked to faith or belief

The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (CWRC), based at the Institute of Education, was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to conduct a small-scale review of previous research on ‘...

A need to belong: What leads girls to join gangs

A small minority of young people is involved in gangs in the UK but they are the subject of considerable public and political concern. This has been prompted by reports of a rise in gangrelated...

A link in the chain: The role of friends and family in tackling domestic abuse

Despite increasing policy attention and changing attitudes, domestic abuse is a feature of many relationships. Last year 1 in 15 women, and 1 in 33 men experienced domestic abuse at the hands of...

A line in the sand? Munro and the state of social work

Mike Garforth sets out his hope that Munro will lead a retreat from a culture in which social workers have been able to abdicate responsibility for failure by simply following a box ticking agenda,...

3 Lives: What have we learned, what we need to do

Tragically there is a litany of abuse of those who are made vulnerable by their circumstances and all too often families who are so integral to fulfilling lives for their sons and daughters are...

'Polishing the Diamonds': Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Scotland

The aim of this briefing paper is to give an overview of ACEs and to provide an insight into the following questions: What does the term Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) mean? What harm dose...

2016 Report of the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on Modern Slavery

This report provides an assessment of modern slavery in the UK and explains how the UK has responded to this threat over the past 12 months. The Inter Departmental Ministerial Group (IDMG) comprises...

10 Years on: Global progress and delay in ending violence against children – the rhetoric and the reality

The International NGO Council on Violence Against Children formed in 2007, to support strong and effective follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against Children. Now, as the Sustainable Development...

A Cry for Health: Why we must invest in domestic abuse services in hospitals

Domestic abuse has a devastating effect on the health and wellbeing of victims and families, and is a national public health epidemic.Each year an estimated 1.9m people in the UK suffer some form of...

'Improving the quality of Serious Case Reviews' through support and training: independent evaluation

Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) take place after a child dies or is seriously injured and abuse or neglect is known or suspected. The prime purpose of a SCR is for agencies and individuals to learn...

National Director – SASW job description

National Director – SASW Person Specification

Birmingham & Solihull Branch Meetings 2019 - Flyer

Child Welfare Inequalities resource sheet

Accompanying resource sheet for BASWTalk Podcast - Ep2 Child Welfare Inequalities Research Project.

Brexit

The EU referendum revealed deep divisions within the United Kingdom and the British people. Here two social workers offer two very different perspectives on the result

HCPC Brexit response to BASW

HCPC clarifies the impact of a no deal Brexit on European social workers.

About SWU leaflet (Welsh)

About SWU leaflet

Becoming a union contact with SWU (Welsh)

Vision, mission, aims leaflet (Welsh)

Difference between BASW and SWU (Welsh)

The Social Workers Union Annual Statement 2018

Community of Practice Event 20.03.2019

Belfast City and Troubles Coach Tour 2019

A description of the coach tour on offer around Belfast supporting the BASW UK AGM and Conference, June 2019.

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