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Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week.

Julie Morgan AS/MS, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, confirms social workers in Wales are integral to ensuring the wellbeing of residents in residential care and should be recognised as professional visitors

BASW England, with many others, we were part of the campaign to reinstate the rights of children in care lost through Statutory Instrument 445

The five key requirements to enhance and future proof social work services, and improve the lives of people in need of them

BASW is fundraising to to support homeless shelters across the UK by sharing festive wishes with a specially designed Clare in the Community eCard by Harry Venning.

Social workers are seeing the most vulnerable in society going without the care and support they need.

The 80-20 campaign is all about getting back to our social work roots by creating more time for relationship-based practice.

The Wales’ Anti-Poverty Coalition, of which BASW Cymru is a member, has written to the Welsh First Minister

It was clear that BASW has built some very important relationships within Europe which I see as contributing positively to the developing future and ongoing progression of Social Work.

BASW has been concerned that private companies would be carrying out interviews with those who were seeking asylum and were or claimed to be under 18, without appropriate expertise or staff.