A recent UK Government cabinet ‘mini reshuffle’ has led to David Johnston MP being appointed as the fifth Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing in only two years.
This past week, The Herald featured a report by One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) which brings attention to how the social security system acts against family reunification.
While we entirely agree with many of the issues and recommendations highlighted in the report, we were dismayed by the framing in the Herald article which over-simplified the relationship between poverty and the difficult, yet vital, decisions about safety and risk that professionals must sometimes make with families.
Our latest points ponder looks at what the new Scottish National Social Work Agency needs to look like and how to achieve that in light of the Verity House Agreement.
BASW has joined with 30 health and social care organisations from across the UK to call for an Essentials Guarantee to address the serious risks the cost-of-living crisis is posing to people’s mental and physical health.
BASW Chair and CEO write to the Times and the Guardian following the the horrific failings at the Countess of Chester Hospital and the vital role of local multiagency safeguarding.