Eligibility for Advice and Representation guidance

About the Advice and Representation guidance and fact sheets

These documents provide key pieces of information that may support you to resolve your current issue and to manage the immediate situation. If you are an eligible member and require further information or guidance on this issue, please complete the A & R Referral Form online.

Eligibility for Advice and Representation guidance includes information on:

• The BASW / SWU eligibility criteria for advice and representation.  
• The relationship between BASW and SWU.  
• Recognition by employers.  

If you need this document in a more accessible format, please email aras@basw.co.uk   

The Advice and Representation team have developed 58 guidance sheets to support BASW members:

• Advice & Representation Service (A&R) - How we work for you
• Agency social workers guidance
• Appealing the outcome of a hearing guidance
• Appearing as a witness in employment and regulatory body matters
• ASYE guidance
• Bullying and harassment guidance
• Capability process guidance
• Complaints guidance
• Completing a fitness to practise (FtP) statement
• Coroner’s inquests guidance
• Court attendance guidance
• Court attendance FAQs
• Disability discrimination in the workplace guidance
• Disciplinary & suspension guidance
• Disclosure and barring service information
• Discrimination in the workplace guidance
• Eligibility for Advice and Representation guidance
• Employment contracts guidance
• Employment tribunal FAQs
• Employment tribunal general information
• Flexible working requests guidance
• Fitness to practise (FtP) referrals & proceedings
• Grievance guidance
• Independent social work guidance
• Ill health retirement guidance
• Insight and remediation guidance
• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) guidance
• Maternity/Paternity rights guidance
• Meetings with your employer your right to be accompanied and preparation for attendance at meetings
• Member form - Discrimination
• Member form - Whistleblowing
• Members A&R criteria
• Menopause guidance
• Methods of representation criteria for BASW/SWU
• Overpayments & repayments guidance
• Pensions guidance
• Preparation for hearings
• Probation process guidance
• Protest participation and consequences
• Public inquiries guidance
• Public inquiry - Muckamore Abbey Hospital
• Racism in the workplace guidance
• Reasonable adjustment passport template
• Recognised trade unions guidance
• Redundancy and restructuring guidance
• Reference guidance and how to challenge a reference
• Reflective statement guidance
• Regulatory body guidance
• Settlement agreement guidance
• Sickness absence process guidance
• Social Work England (SWE) registration guidance
• Social workers experiencing harassment or abuse in the course of their duties
• Subject Access Request (SAR) guidance
• Student guidance
• TUPE (transfer of undertakings) guidance
• Whistleblowing guidance
• Work related stress guidance
• Working time regulations guidance