Ahead of this year's World Social Work Day, our Communications and Public Affairs Officer, considers the impact of humanity's biggest democratic year ever and the link between collective wellbeing and democracy for society.
SASW are calling on the Scottish Government to offer social workers and social care workers a fair mileage rate, on a par with NHS colleagues, for travel while working.
This past week, The Herald featured a report by One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) which brings attention to how the social security system acts against family reunification.
While we entirely agree with many of the issues and recommendations highlighted in the report, we were dismayed by the framing in the Herald article which over-simplified the relationship between poverty and the difficult, yet vital, decisions about safety and risk that professionals must sometimes make with families.