Member only content New immigration rules will be a disaster for social work Foreign worker pay threshold rises to £38,700 prompting warning over new staffing crisis News 8 Dec 2023
Resisting the 'hostile environment' - free training for social workers Online sessions offered in wake of government's increasingly hard-line approach to refugees and aslyum seekers News 4 Apr 2023
Poor mental health and sexual/criminal exploitation increasing factors in child assessments Study of 3.6 million social work reports gives important insights News 29 Jan 2024
BASW England responds to news about urgent proceedings issued against SoS for Health and Social Care - as the number of people with learning disabilities dying from Covid-19 continues to rise The Government needs to change vaccine prioritisation to prevent further deaths. News 29 Jan 2021
Massive support for BASW stand on asylum age assessment recruitment BASW is discouraging members and all other social workers from applying for age assessment roles. News 16 Mar 2023
Social workers come top for kindness Survey of 60,000 puts social work top among professions News 13 Apr 2022
"Poverty is a very real problem. The people experiencing it, are not" Jude Currie, Chair of our Committee, shares her views on how social workers can best support those living in poverty. Blog 5 Oct 2020
More support needed for adoptees who become parents UK’s first study to investigate lived experience of adoptees as parents has important message for social services News 16 Jan 2024
Shuggie Bain – A novel for social work Social worker David Stakes on why every practitioner should read the Booker Prize-winning novel In focus 8 Feb 2021
National newspaper criticised for stigmatising children in care People with care experience and social workers speak out against article published in The Times News 24 Nov 2021