Campaigning and influencing

BASW and SWU, in partnership with Bath Spa University, are campaigning for improved professional working conditions

BASW is campaigning for a more socially just context. We want to reduce poverty and inequality, and challenge austerity policies.

BASW is campaigning to resolve the UK-wide homelessness emergency.

BASW is campaigning to uphold relationship-based practice in social work across the UK.

Autistic people and people with learning disabilities should not be in hospital units, but supported to live independent and fulfilling lives

The 80:20 campaign aims to reverse the current trend in social work where practitioners are spending most of their time on administrative and process driven tasks, rather than on building relationships.

Updates on BASW England's work in relation to the Independent Review of Children's Social Care.

SASW campaigns to raise the visibility of the social work profession, for improved working conditions for practitioners and for a better supported workforce.

Some of the key activities and outcomes from active campaigns in England.

SASW is campaigning for improved working conditions and a better supported social work workforce.

Campaigning for social work in Northern Ireland

BASW Cymru continues to influence and lobby in Wales.