Professor Christine Cocker, Head of School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, provides an update on developments in transitional safeguarding in this blog for BASW.
Ruth Allen, BASW CEO, introduces the new briefing and underlines its importance to social workers working with young people transitioning into adulthood.
BASW England’s Maris Stratulis reflects on week 3 of World Social Work Month and pays tribute to social workers across England, the UK and the world – before looking ahead to next week of #WSWmonth led by the Scottish Association of Social Workers.
The recent serious case review in relation to AG, a child from a Traveller family living in Norfolk, once again highlights a woeful lack of cultural competence amongst social workers when supporting Gypsy, Roma or Traveller families and the devasting impact this can have on the child(ren).