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Social workers need better protection from the moral distress of trying to be ethical in “an unethical world”.

Families facing fuel poverty are using barbecues indoors, putting themselves at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, the BASW England Conference heard.

Pressures on families were seen as contextual and not of people's own making during the pandemic. The same perspective needed to apply now as food and fuel insecurity rises, expert says.

Lewis Roberts works with some of the most deprived communities in the UK and talks about what he does to combat moral injury...

Greater Manchester Mayor speaks to BASW membership

Campaigns include uprate to benefits in line with inflation, lobbying for a freeze on evictions and a third drive to remove the childcare cap.

BASW England’s chair has warned of a “perfect storm” in the year ahead for social work against a backdrop of greater pressure on people and cuts to public services.

'We will call out weakness' promise BASW leaders

There has been a 63 per cent increase this year in the number of social workers applying for financial help from the Social Work Benevolent Trust, the BASW Annual Members Meeting heard.

The pandemic has resulted in ‘new social work skills’ including being able to function in an online world, BASW’s annual student and NQSW conference heard.