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Pete Feldon, Chair of the BASW England Adults social work group provides an update and sets out the importance of your feedback.

BASW joins 30 organisations to write to the Government to tell them to limit the long-term impact of the pandemic on young people’s mental health

Once more SWU has attempted to work with UNISON, this time on a joint statement about the importance of sufficient social work funding post Covid-19

Part of Mental Health Awareness Week

BASW responds as the Government re-introduces the new Immigration Bill to Parliament

Official figures released this week by the Office for National Statistics showed the deaths of ten social workers, and an additional two social services managers, involved Covid-19 between 9 March and 20 April.

Blog by Professor Brid Featherstone (University of Huddersfield) and Professor Anna Gupta (Royal Holloway University of London)

BASW commits £30,000 to support international social work partners in the fight against Covid 19

Blog by Ruth Allen, CEO BASW

It is no coincidence that recent applications from social workers to the Social Workers’ Benevolent Trust (SWBT) have significantly increased over the last 7 weeks due to the financial impact of the coronavirus on individual social workers and their families.