SWAN – Radical theory and practice

Freedom for Palestine – End Israeli Apartheid

The horrific events unfolding in Israel and Gaza in recent weeks are a stark reminder to the world that the occupation of Palestine must end. It is heart wrenching to witness so many families mourning their loved ones. We want ... Read More

Articles, Campaigns

SWAN I STATEMENTS ON UKRAINE: IN PORTUGUESE; SPANISH; CHINESE; JAPANESE

Articles, Campaigns

Statement on the Invasion of and War in Ukraine

Social Work Action Network-International (SWAN-I): Statement on the Invasion and War in Ukraine Please find below a statement agreed by SWAN-I in relation to the war in Ukraine. As an international social work organisation, the Social Work Action Network- ... Read More

Campaigns

In Support of Trans Rights!

Here you can watch back our SWAN-I webinar on Transgender rights and download our statement in English, Greek and Spanish. NB. you will hear some people trying to interrupt the meeting at the start, this highlights that transphobes are actively ... Read More

Articles

The Official Launch of Act 4 Inclusion: Choice, Control and Independence

DATE FOR THE DIARY: 28th October 2021 , 7pm – 9pm On the 22nd of May 2021 at the AGM Reclaim Social Care the campaign organisation adopted a new vision and strategy alongside voting to change its name to Act 4 Inclusion. ... Read More

Articles

Social work response to the Government’s treatment of Afghan asylum-seekers

PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS SOCIAL WORK RESPONSE TO THE INHUMANE ASYLUM SYSTEM DELIVERED BY OUR GOVERNMENT. THANKS TO SWWB FOR LEADING ON THIS. 31st August 2021 Dear Priti Patel MP (Secretary of State for the Home Department),Cc:Sajid Javid MP ... Read More

Articles, Care Review Watch

Video Podcast Critiquing The Case For Change – watch/listen and SHARE!

Robin Sen, lecturer in social worker and steering group member for CRWA, and Alissa, social worker and steering group member for both SWAN and CRWA, discuss what is said – and more importantly what is NOT said – in the ... Read More

Articles, Care Review Watch

Care Review Watch Alliance Response to the MacAlister Care Review ‘Case for Change’

Introduction The Care Review Watch Alliance (CRWA) is a loose collective of care experienced people, care professionals and academics. We come from all corners of the community, including social workers, providers and care experienced folk. We all have concerns about ... Read More

Articles

Research: Diverse Identities in Social Work Education and Practice!

Calling all social work practitioners in the UK!! Please consider taking part in this survey, conducted as a pilot on diverse identities among social work students and practitioners in the UK. We want to find out specifically about whether and ... Read More

Care Review Watch

SWAN SUPPORTS THE CRWA STATEMENT ON THE CASE FOR CHANGE.

SWAN is pleased to support the Care Review Watch Alliance response the the Case For Change, and shares it here. The Case For Change is the first position statement released by the ‘Independent’ Review of Children’s Social Care in England, ... Read More

Articles

SWAN statement of support for the #StopSIM Coalition

The High Intensity Network (HIN) and associated ‘Serenity Integrated Mentoring’ (SIM) model of care has been increasingly widely promoted by NHS England since 2016. According to HIN’s website, the issue that the SIM model seeks to address is the “intensive ... Read More

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Here is why I am concerned about the #CareReview – and why I think you should be too…

Care Review Watch

Demands from the Care Review Alliance

Care Review Watch Alliance Our demands: We call on the government to replace Josh MacAlister with a suitably qualified Chair of the review. MacAlister is not sufficiently experienced in the areas under investigation and does not have demonstrable independence from government. We ... Read More

Care Review Watch

Who Are The Care Review Watch Alliance?

Following the formation of a group of people with many and varied interests in and shared concerns about the #CareReview, there is now a coalition called the Care Review Watch Alliance. Whilst we have space on the SWAN website, and ... Read More

Care Review Watch

Care Review Watch Alliance

SWAN is proud to be part of the Care Review Watch Alliance – a broad coalition of people and groups who oppose the Review of Children’s Social Care, chaired by Josh MacAlister, as it is currently constituted. This page will ... Read More

Articles

Researching resistance in practice!

Social justice has long been recognized as a core value of social work practice, a value which only increased in importance, if one is to consider the effects of the advancing commodification of social services, the immense social consequences of the Corona-virus, and persistent inequalities. In their practice, ... Read More

Articles

Care Reform – The Common Weal

WHY SCOTLAND NEEDS TO REFORM THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS Read the new paper from Colin Turbett here, from the Common Weal website. This history of social work in Scotland highlights how it has been changed, reduced, marginalised. But there ... Read More

Campaigns

Why Are Care Workers So Undervalued? Sign The Petition To Improve Pay

SWAN supports the UNISON petition to properly fund the care sector. Social Work Action Network has long promoted campaigns that highlight the devastating impact that denationalising care has had within the UK. Our new pamphlet ‘People Before Profit: The Future ... Read More

Articles

Pamphlet Launch: People Before Profit: The future of social care in Scotland

SWAN in partnership with the Jimmy Reid Foundation have brought together a collection of contributions to discuss the need for a better and radical shift in social care. This follows from the Scottish Government commission into a developing a National ... Read More

Campaigns

The NSPCC should drop JCB

Simon Cardy discusses the background to the call for the NSPCC to stop accepting cash donations from JCB. SWAN has linked up with possibly its biggest collaboration with other networks and organisations to date namely: Protecting Palestinian Families Campaign, the ... Read More

Articles, Campaigns

How Safe Are Palestinian Children?

Along with our coalition partners, a Day of Action is planned for 4th March, the day of the NSPCC’s national conference. “Every child has the right to grow up safely”… say the NSPCC, in advertising their 4th March conference: HowSafe2021 Every ... Read More

Campaigns

SIGN THE PETITION: Vote of No Confidence in Independent Review of Children’s Services England.

Vote of No Confidence in the Independent Children’s Services Review. The government’s announcement that Josh MacAlister will chair an ‘independent’ review of children’s social care in England has provoked concern amongst the social work profession. As social workers we are ... Read More

Campaigns

PAs and Care workers in UK under the new immigration system – letter for signatories from DPAC

Many disabled people have for as long as 30 years used PAs and Care Workers from the EU and EEA countries as well as from countries further afield. This has increased their choice and control over the care they ... Read More

Articles

Disability, Vulnerability, and the Pandemic

Written by Bob Williams-Findlay of Reclaim Social Care It is widely acknowledged that we are living through difficult and uncertain times. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to over 80,000 deaths in the United Kingdom, with many more likely to face ... Read More

Articles

Steve Rogowski: Children’s Social Care is not a Business!

This article was originally going to be published within Professional Social Work Magazine, however, we are glad we are able to publish it here. Going Through the Motions? The Review of Children’s Services/Social Care The Department for Education’s (DfE) review ... Read More

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Join the NILSS Public Meeting – Wed 25th Nov

Articles

JOIN THE RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE PUBLIC ZOOM MEETING: Co-production: what it is and how it can be employed

19th November 2020 at 3pm – 5pm You are invited to attend our next public zoom event, details below. If you wish to attend, please register in advance by clicking the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMod-GhrDMpGteZY1tWBnTpYkK7ThVIol5d After registering, you will receive a confirmation ... Read More

Campaigns

NSPCC DISMISSES THE CONCERNS OF SOCIAL WORK PROFESSIONALS, IN THEIR DISAPPOINTING RESPONSE TO OUR LETTER

The NSPCC sent an immediate response to our JCB campaign letter, submitted to them on Monday 12th October and demanding an explanation of why they felt it was ok to accept a massive donation from a company renting out their ... Read More

Articles

Swan statement on the Amnesty International report “As If Expendable”

As social workers, service users and carers we welcome the publication of Amnesty International’s report which exposes the government’s criminal failure to protect elderly and vulnerable people in care homes during the pandemic. The report makes very difficult reading as ... Read More

Campaigns

NSPCC CAMPAIGN: WITH JCB LINKED TO PALESTINIAN CLEARANCES, WHY ARE THE NSPCC ACCEPTING THEIR MONEY?

The UK Palestinian Mental Health Network recently highlighted to SWAN that the NSPCC has accepted a £5 million pound donation from JCB. This is highly problematic and has led to SWAN spearheading a social work campaign to have the NSPCC ... Read More

Articles

INTERVIEW: Ian Angus, Ecosocialist

Ian Angus is a independent scholar, activist, author and educator. You can find more on Ian Angus and ecosocialism here. Read More

Campaigns

Protect Palestinian Families. SWAN Statement on the £5m corporate donation of JCB to the NSPCC.

PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING AND SHARING THE PETITION ATTACHED AT THE END OF THIS STATEMENT. SWAN is extremely concerned that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a charity campaigning and working in child protection in the ... Read More

Articles

Independent Living For All!

SWAN is pleased to publish a short paper that proposes a campaign to make independent living, as defined by the United Nations, the driving force for social care. This is timely. The evidence is making it inarguable that the personalisation ... Read More

Campaigns

SWAN & XR STATEMENT

Social Work Action Network (SWAN) would like to express its solidarity with the inspiring, brave action of the Extinction Rebellion movement over the last two weeks and into the future. Young people in particular are risking their own future through ... Read More

Articles

Interview with editor of Revolutionary Social Work, Masoud Kamali

SWAN-I member, Masoud Kamali, has brought together a selection of authors that shows how social work can be an active agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and ... Read More

Campaigns

Letter in Support of Alan Dettlaff

As members of the Social Work Action Network-International to express our concern aboutthe recent removal of Professor Alan Dettlaff from his post as Dean of the Graduate Collegeof Social Work, at the University of Huston.SWAN-I is a network of social ... Read More

Campaigns

Defend Human Rights – Defend Bilal Yildiz

Please read below the following statement from the Human Rights Foundations Turkey in relation to the unjust arrest of Bilal for his human rights work. We will be hosting a live webinar in solidarity on the 11th December at 3pm ... Read More

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