The Awards invite individual and organisational nominations from across Scotland to showcase examples of best practice in the social services sector. Categories were newly expanded to 14 to represent the wide range of social work and social care provision in Scotland.
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) focus on a particular issue or service area.
… Interest Group As social workers, we are responsible for championing human rights and challenging oppression and … of Romani and Traveller families have been disregarded for too long and Romani and Traveller communities need us to … online, usually on MS Teams, on the last Tuesday of every month, 7pm till 8.30pm. There is also a sub-group of the SIG …
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.
High quality record keeping is vital to good social work practice. However, all too often paperwork constrains rather than supports practice.
… unnecessary and duplicative bureaucracy in social work for more than a decade. We will continue in this work until meaningful change is delivered for our profession. We aim to rejuvenate our campaign and … a referral from a GP about a 78-year-old woman with a history of angina and limited mobility living alone and …
Two student apprentices, a qualified social worker via the apprenticeship route, a social work lecturer and two employers share their experiences of the four-year-old programme