BASW England welcomes the launch of a ‘rapid review’ into mental health inpatient care in England and urge that this does not become a missed opportunity to champion the provision of adequately funded, good quality, timely community care provision and to champion the rights of people in all care settings.
In the response, the Immigration Minister referred to plans for a National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), a proposal that 50% of respondents to our survey disagreed with.
BASW Cymru’s National Director, Prof. Sam Baron, has written to the First Minister of Wales, Eluned Morgan MS, urging her to use her position and influence to bring to an end the the two-child limit and benefit cap.
The 2018 edition of the UK Social Workers: Working Conditions and Wellbeing survey by Dr. Jermaine Ravalier from Bath Spa University – co-commissioned by Social Workers Union (SWU) and the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) – was launched today at a conference in Birmingham.