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The new Scottish Act removes any doubt that physical discipline is not acceptable and can only assist social workers when doing multifaceted assessments of families.

As social workers we will often see, first-hand, what poverty can do to children and their families.

Safe access to care and health settings for social workers as professional visitors is essential

Kerri Prince, Public and Political Affairs Lead for BASW UK, provides members with an update from Westminster.

Recognising the unique and important contribution that social workers make during lockdown and beyond

Find out what the team in Scotland have been doing on behalf of members this week

Today, BASW England and BASW Cymru have jointly launched a new campaign to change national guidelines for social workers to get regular, safe access to health and care settings, so they can carry out their statutory duties and protect the human rights of citizens in care.

Black History Month maybe over as a calendar event, but Black History didn't start nor ends in October. So here is another piece from the Black Professionals Symposium group

Russell Hogarth, who sits on the BASW at 50 years steering group, shares his own personal experiences of 'lockdowns' and contrasts them with the experience of Covid-19 restrictions