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​BASW England has responded to the Department of Health & Social Care’s consultation on Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s

During Challenge Poverty Week, SASW are raising awareness of the impact of poverty on families - and the BASW Anti-Poverty Practice Guide.

BASW England’s Adults Practice, Policy and Education (PPEG) group is pleased that the Ombudsman for Local Government and Social Care has given advice to local authorities about principles they must follow in the Annual Review of Social Care Complaints 2018-19.

The Scottish Government has announced that the Named Person and Child's Plan Proposals will no longer go ahead as planned.

SASW supports the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill, which MSPs are due to vote on on Thursday 3rd October.

BASW England and SWU have completed our survey of members and formulated our response for the Consultation for NICE guideline on Supporting Adult Carers.

BASW England and SWU have completed our survey of members and formulated our response for both, the Department for Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) ‘Children Cases in the Family Court consultation’ on public law, and for private law.

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.

Read the first blog post from our National Director, Alistair Brown, who updates members on our work over the last year.

Find out more about our three focus areas within the Programme for Government.