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These legislative proposals will roll back human rights rather than uphold them.

This legislation criminalises the way of life of Gypsy and Traveller communities - and we also have major concerns around changes to the right to protest.

We are grateful to the Welsh Government who will be funding the Professional Support Service (PSS) in Wales

Wales has implemented new laws on ending the physical punishment of children, and England needs to enact similar legislative changes.

Hundreds of social workers from around the UK attended our Annual Conference, which was held at the University of Birmingham.

In her first statement as Chair of BASW, Julia Ross said: " A child's death is an appalling and dreadful tragedy, but in the cases where social work in involved the blaming or even naming the social worker involved doesn’t elevate an article, nor is it journalistically relevant."