For World Social Work Day #WSWD2020 we join with social workers across the UK and worldwide to celebrate and recognise our profession’s vital work across global communities - today and every day.
Social care provision is under huge strain, poverty is removing hope and opportunity, and our workforce once again has to navigate the uncertainty of an unstable government with no vision on how to get us out of this crisis.
The National Care Service passed its first test in Parliament and will now progress to stage 2. The Bill passed using the Scottish Government’s majority but there are clear challenges ahead for the bill, and for social work’s position within it.
This year, BASW's fringe events at both the Labour and Liberal Democrats’ party-political conferences have yielded a growing recognition among party members of all stripes that social workers are facing a real uphill struggle to deliver the type of service that they are trained to provide.