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Black Lives Matter: No more silence! A poem by Maureen Mguni for Black History Month, looking back over a turbulent year

BASW England Professional Officer Gavin Moorghen reflects on the growing issue of child food poverty in England and invites members to join an online event to consider possible solutions and our professional response.

The government needs to work more collaboratively, compassionately and transparently with Black and Ethnic Minority communities in order to recognise broken trust and structural inequalities

Central to the Shaping Social Workers’ Identity all-Ireland study is exploring whether the diversity of social work practice affects the professional identity of social work practitioners.

Maris Stratulis has written to the Children’s Minister to urge the government to change its position on free school meals during the school holidays.

Families and foster carers must be able to buy clothes for looked after children who are placed in an emergency

I am requesting that the government revisit the free school meal decision in reconsidering the issue of food poverty and how it impacts the most disadvantaged

It is so important that we celebrate and commemorate our history and those who have gone before us, whose giant shoulders we all stand on

Coronavirus: During lockdown, there has been a worrying rise in the number of referrals to child protection unit

This digital edition focuses on the key legislation and policy landmarks in the profession since 1970, as well as the examination of the response of social work practice and social work as a profession.