The struggle for LGBTQIA+ rights remains urgent and necessary. How have social workers responded so far, and what can we, as a profession centred on social justice, do about it? A blog from Lizzie Furber (they/them), Principal Social Worker with DCC-i, a social work training and consultancy organisation.
BASW UK will be hosting an event in the UK Parliament next month to share our anti-poverty campaign with politicians and the wider anti-poverty campaigning sector.
Social worker, Food is Care campaign founder and Food Foundation Ambassador, Dominic Watters talks to BASW about the devastating impact of fuel poverty across the UK and what more can be done to tackle it.
It seems likely that Inflammatory and negative language to describe asylum seekers used by the Home Office has contributed to the hostile environment that leads to attacks on migrant centres such as the recent incident in Knowsley.
jane fae shares her knowledge and perspective of the ongoing issue of transphobic dog whistles in the UK as part of this educational blog series for social workers.
SWU and 20 other unions have signed the Migrant Workers’ Pledge condemning the Government’s attempts to ‘pit’ workers against each other and calling for urgent action to advance the rights of migrant workers.
Understanding how dog whistles work, how they affect vulnerable and marginalised communities, and how to diffuse them are important tools for social workers.