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BASW England welcomes the release of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Report: “It’s Silent – Race, Racism, and Safeguarding Children”.

A response to a Scottish Government consultation on transitions

A blog on diversity in senior social work roles by SASW Professional Officer, Susan Dobson.

Dinner at DGS (Dunbar Grammar School) is an intergenerational dinner club that brings people of all ages together on a weekly basis. This brilliant project, was visited by STV News who described it as "a roaring success".

BASW has joined with leading paediatricians and dentists to press the Home Secretary to drop plans for scientific age assessments for children and young people seeking asylum in the UK.

Letter to and response from the Scottish Government in support of their opposition to 'scientific age assessment' of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

Understanding how dog whistles work, how they affect vulnerable and marginalised communities, and how to diffuse them are important tools for social workers.

The government must put an end to the unofficial and ongoing shadow system of hotel accommodation for children not born in the UK.

The UK Government needs to go much further, and much faster, in scaling up effective responses to meet this huge need.

BASW will be giving oral evidence on migrant children and age assessments, as part of the committee's scrutiny of the Nationality and Borders Bill.