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Our latest points ponder looks at what the new Scottish National Social Work Agency needs to look like and how to achieve that in light of the Verity House Agreement.

BASW has joined with 30 health and social care organisations from across the UK to call for an Essentials Guarantee to address the serious risks the cost-of-living crisis is posing to people’s mental and physical health.

BASW Chair and CEO write to the Times and the Guardian following the the horrific failings at the Countess of Chester Hospital and the vital role of local multiagency safeguarding.

SCIE has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to develop ‘training resources to improve Care Act compliance’.

BASW Chair Julia Ross writes to The Times to raise concerns.

Hundreds of social work students and recent graduates have joined a call to reform bursaries across England.

Read BASW UK's statement in response to the recently passed Illegal Migration Act.

SASW has reached out to senior Scottish Labour MSPs urging them to support our calls for the two-child cap to be scrapped.

SASW writes to Scottish Labour to voice concerns on Two Child Cap Policy.

This is an update on what BASW is doing to respond to this ongoing crisis in Europe. It includes an update on the response from the International Federation of Social Workers Europe and learning from IFSW’s European conference.