Support BASW England's 80:20 Campaign

BASW England is creating a toolkit to inform employers and the government about what support social workers need to enable more relationship-based practice.

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. Find out more.

Therapeutic, reflective, relationship-based practice is the best way for social workers to bring effective and positive change to the lives of those we support. So how do we make it happen?

Help Design our Toolkit

Our toolkit will make the case to decision-makers for social workers to be given more time to engage in direct relationship-based work. It will be a document with a series of 'top tips' explaining to employers and the government about what needs to be improved, ideas for what changes should happen and the impact they would have. 

We need your views and insights from frontline practice to ensure the toolkit makes the strongest possible impact on those we need to influence to effect change. Share your suggestions and ideas for how to create the conditions needed to support and enable relationship based social work.

Please share your reflections with us in response to the following question:

  • What support do you need to make time for relationship-based social work?

All feedback is anonymous and should be directed to england@basw.co.uk before Monday, 14 August 2023.

All information received will be held in line with GDPR and will only be used for the purposes of the campaign. No personal information, including the name and contact details of the person submitting the information, will be shared.