This year’s conference is entitled ‘Social Work in a ‘cold climate’: fighting for good practice in times of austerity’ at Durham University. It is held on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th April 2014. Bookings can be made here.
Month: March 2014
Media Coverage of the Social Work Action Network Ireland campaign against the proposed “Graduate Scheme” for Newly Qualified Social Workers
Article in the Journal newspaper: http://www.thejournal.ie/student-social-workers-1346047-Mar2014/
Article in The University Times: http://universitytimes.ie/?p=25119
Photo coverage in Demotrix: http://www.demotix.com/news/4254993/national-social-workers-protest-against-cheap-labour/all-media
Video from Paula Geraghty at Trade Union TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQahPuTRRf4
Young Workers Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVdSQPIGC2g
We’re Not Leaving Campaign: http://werenotleaving.com/2014/03/21/wnl-supports-social-work-action-network/
Paul Murphy MEP: http://www.paulmurphymep.eu/2014/03/graduate-placement-scheme-thin-end-of-a-wedge-to-drive-down-wages-across-the-sector/
*Photo from Union Students Ireland (Denise McCarthy)
Banners for National Social Work Demonstration
Here is a link to the placards and banners we have made (so far!) for the upcoming national social work demonstration on March 21st in Dublin, Ireland. Make sure to make some of your own and post them on our facebook event page ahead of the demo so that we can see everyone’s artwork ahead of the big event!
Link to posters: http://tinyurl.com/nhod4pz
Poster for SWAN Ireland National Demonstration, March 21st 2014
Please share and print off this poster ahead of the demo next week! Put it everywhere; in colleges, in workplaces, in shops, anywhere you think a newly qualified worker might be!
See you at the demonstration at Dail Eireann, Dublin, Friday March 21st, 1-2pm
Student social workers slam proposed graduate scheme as ‘complete exploitation’
An article in The Journal (National online “newspaper” in Ireland) about the proposed “new graduate” scheme for newly qualified social workers. Comments from The Social Work Action Network Galway included, along with details of the upcoming national demonstration being organised by SWAN Ireland.
Link: http://www.thejournal.ie/student-social-workers-1346047-Mar2014/
Monthly SWAN Dublin meeting, March 13th, 7pm
The next SWAN Dublin monthly meeting is on March 13th at 7pm. Please see poster for full details.