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Member only content The brave new world of digital safeguarding Dr Sarah Carlick on how technology can – and should – revolutionise child protection In focus 8 Dec 2023
Member only content Scottish social work students celebrate funding victory Victory ends 'lottery' of bursary system but fight continues to achieve parity with other professions News 8 Dec 2023
Member only content ‘A complex and nonsensical pay system’ fuelling recruitment crisis in Scotland Scottish Association of Social Work demands national approach to pay and conditions News 8 Dec 2023
Member only content A diet of potatoes: the harsh realities of life on £1.40 a day Report highlights UK treatment of asylum seekers facing deep poverty fuelled by cost of living crisis News 8 Dec 2023
Member only content High vacancy rates, poor staff retention – it feels like a ‘crunch point’ in social work BASW chief executive Ruth Allen and SWU general secretary John McGowan discuss the state of social work News 7 Dec 2023
Member only content 139,000 homeless children this Christmas is ‘shameful’ Shortage of social housing and sky high private rents plunge more families into housing insecurity News 7 Dec 2023
Member only content My social work parents said don’t be a social worker (but I ignored them) Final year social work student Olivia Laverton reflects on her chosen career and what she has learned so far… Viewpoint 7 Dec 2023
‘Astronomical’ rise in cost of children’s social care placements draining council coffers Local Government Association warning amid 1,150 per cent rise in placements costing £10k plus a week News 7 Dec 2023
Member only content National Social Work Agency a gamechanger for Scotland, says cabinet secretary Angela Constance claims new body will be key to ensuring better work conditions and the voice of profession is heard News 29 Nov 2023
Member only content ‘You have to like people to be a social worker' BASW member Janet Foulds discusses what being a social worker means to her after gaining an honorary degree from the University of Derby In focus 23 Nov 2023
