Conferences

Only a month to go! Here's the full line up - it's a packed event! Read More

Please find attached our flyer for the annual conference, June 4th 2016. We are asking you to share it within your networks, and book your tickets in advance!  Read More

Swan is extremely pleased to confirm two more big names for the 4th June conference. Read More

We are delighted to announce a brilliant line up for Plenary 2 of the annual Swan Conference. Read More

Here you can find the link to the booking page for our one day event in London!  Read More

*DUE TO THE INCREASING AND UNMANAGEABLE COST OF HOSTING A TWO DAY EVENT AT BRISTOL UNIVERSITY, DETAILS OF THE ANNUAL SWAN CONFERENCE HAVE CHANGED* Read More

SWAN Conference 2015 took place at the University of West Scotland in Paisley on 10th & 11th April. It was another strong and vibrant conference with over 400 delegates which was SWAN's 10th such event. The full minutes from the AGM are published below, with the motions carried available for download at the foot of the page. In the first motion, on Palestine and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) of Israel movement, SWAN members overwhelmingly voted in favour of supporting the BDS campaign, SWAN to explore formal affiliation to the  Palestinian-UK Social Work Network and for SWAN to call upon the International Federation of Social Work (IFSW) and the British organisers of the IFSW conference to withdraw the invitation to participate to speakers from Israel in line with aims of BDS. In second motion, proposed by the SWAN National Steering Committee, a position of no confidence was passed in the English Chief Social Worker For Children & Families, Isabelle Trowler. This included SWAN supporting the statement made by the Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee on 25/3/15 who share the concern that money being distributed to the private sector for the outsourcing of the accreditation of qualified social workers. It also encouraged SWAN supporters to sign recent online change.org petition (http://chn.ge/1Ns4RSj) demanding a full and independent enquiry into the awarding of the tender for the new Social Work accreditation for the 'Approved Child and Family Practitioner status' to KPMG and Morning Lane Associates. Read More

SWAN Conference 2015 organising committee are pleased to release the final programme for the event - please download this below. Speakers include Ana Lima Fernandez, President of Consejo General del Trabajo Social (General Council on Social Work), who was a leader of the 'Orange Tide' anti-austerity movement in Spain to stop cuts to social services. Read More

A leader of Spanish social workers who has won international awards for her role in challenging homelessness and austerity in Spain will be one of the main speakers at the SWAN national conference being held in Paisley, Scotland from 10-11 April. Ana Lima Fernandez, President of Consejo General del Trabajo Social (General Council on Social Work), was one of only three recipients of the International Federation of Social Work secretary general’s award for outstanding services to social work. Read More

SWAN has just released the final flyer for the 2015 conference at University of the West of Scotland, Paisley Campus, 10-11 April.Please download a copy of the flyer below. You can book for the conference here. Read More

National conferences. One of SWAN’s principle objectives is to bring together practitioners, students, carers, service users and academics through regular conferences and campaigning activities, which strengthen the radical voice within social work practice, education and wider social policy debates. Conferences ... Read More