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    • Test, Safe Access, Promote Rights
  • What we do
    • Campaigns
      • Anti-austerity and anti-poverty
      • Professional working conditions
      • Relationship-based practice
      • Homelessness
    • World Social Work Day 2021
      • Amazing social workers - a celebration of all social workers!
    • Policy and research
      • The Anti-Poverty Practice Guide for Social Work
      • BASW in Parliament
      • Untested models
      • Social work knowledge and research
      • BASW's social media policy
      • BASW human rights policy
      • BASW whistleblowing policy
      • Brexit
    • Around the UK
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