After SWAN Conference 2011: Why UNISON needs to lead the fightback
Memoona Kersey reports back from SWAN Conference 2011 and argues that UNISON needs to lead the fightback against austerity through collective strike action Read More
October 2011: New edition of Dispatches from the Frontline newsletter
The new Autumn 2011 edition of the SWAN newsletter Dispatches From The Frontline is now available to download as a pdf from the website. Just click the link at the bottom of this page. Read More
SWAN London news roundup September 2011
SWAN London has been taking stock over the summer months of how to grow as a regional group and to make the most of its resources. The group will continue its seminar series with an unique ability to create a radical London forum for practitioners, service users and students - the next event is due for Jan/Feb 2012 on social care and privatisation - we just have to find more than the present £40 in the bank to make it happen! Read More
Social Work Practice Pilots and Social Enterprises: Social Care’s Trojan Horses
From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011Simon Cardy examines a new front in the privatisation of public services Read More
Critical observations on the Munro Review of Child Protection
From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Peter Beresford offer some critical observations on the Munro Review of Child Protection Read More
CASE CON radical social work collective
From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011Jeremy Weinstein, an original member of the CASE CON radical social work collective in the 1970s, draws lessons from that period for today’s struggles Read More
Birmingham social workers strike against pay cuts
From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011Nick Burke, a Birmingham social worker, reports on a strike against pay cuts in September Read More
Social workers strike against austerity
From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011 A social worker in Southampton reports on how social care staff are fighting back against 5% pay cuts and increased workloads. Read More
‘Changes in Social Work: our response’
From Newsletter #3 Spring 2011 London SWAN Report by Carolyn Deacon and Marie McNay London SWAN held a half-day seminar on March 5th 2011 ‘Changes in Social Work: our response’. Read More
‘All in this Together? Defending Welfare Services, Defending Human Rights’
From Newsletter #3 Spring 2011 Iain Ferguson reports on ‘All in this Together? Defending Welfare Services, Defending Human Rights’ an open forum organised by SWAN Scotland Read More
Build the network and chuck some eggs
From Newsletter #2 Autumn 2010 Dan Morton reports on developing links between SWAN and the Autistic Rights Movement Read More
Personalisation and Anti-Racist Practice
From Newsletter #2 Autumn 2010 London SWAN Paul Ellis, social worker and Unison Shop Steward discusses a recent London SWAN meetingI attended this event organised by the London SWAN with a colleague from Camden to discuss personalisation and our response to racism. This was a half-day seminar to critically explore and discuss these two highly topical issues for social work today: the former in the context of the general election and talks over how to fund and deliver social care, and the latter with the rise of the BNP and Islamophobia in Britain. Read More
Don’t Make A Casualty of Our A&E!
From Newsletter #2 Autumn 2010 Rich Moth from London SWAN draws lessons from a successful campaign to save local hospital services at the Whittington Hospital in North London Read More