PSW magazine

Hundreds sign petition in SASW campaign calling for ‘much-needed change’

Families in Scotland are routinely given guardianship over children with learning disabilities as soon as they become adults, undermining autonomy and the ‘least restrictive’ principle, warns Louise Gallacher

Warning as figures show number of orders issued has doubled in ten years

A powerful poem by Adam Pagett who before becoming a social worker experienced homelessness, drugs misuse and prison after leaving the army

Much hope is being placed on the delayed Schools White Paper. PSW editor Shahid Naqvi takes a look at the issues

Patricia Cunningham takes a comparative look at the profession on two very different sides of the planet

More than 60 sign a protest letter to management at Derby University amid wider cuts to social science courses

Gavin Rogers, who has been homeless twice, examines the root of the current crisis – and how to fix it

In the last of a three-part series, Sally Nieman examines how the profession could reframe working with older people

Neurodivergent social workers welcome new recommendations