Solidarity with Unison strikers in Tower Hamlets
Following an arduous period of contract negotiations between Unison and Tower Hamlets Council, workers will now be taking industrial action on the 3rd, 6th and 7th July with a view for further dates in the future. The council has been ... Read More
Support for Imprisoned Hong Kong Social Worker
This is an appeal for Support for a Hong Kong Social Worker Sentenced to one-year Imprisonment in the Anti-extradition Bill Movement. A registered social worker from Hong Kong, Mr. Lau Ka-tung, has been convicted and sentenced to one-year imprisonment for ... Read More
STATEMENT: Black Lives Matter
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom It is our duty to win We must love and protect each other We have nothing to lose but our chains” Assata Shakur The Social Work Action Network International (SWAN-I), a ... Read More
LIVE! Social Work and The Covid-19 Crisis!
Today we will be live streaming our event Social Work and the Covid-19 Crisis: International Perspectives live on Social Work Action Network – SWAN Facebook page at 5pm UK time (event page link below). We will be joined by several ... Read More
SWAN Members Present All Over The UK in Climate Protests
Friday’s global gatherings appear to have amounted to the largest movement in history of people protesting about a single issue. Millions of people, in thousands of protests, across hundreds of countries, turned out to shout about the destruction of our ... Read More
SWAN joins the Global Climate Strikes – digitally and in person!
SWAN members are joining the Global Climate strikes in towns and cities around the world. Our website will be shut down tomorrow, to join the digital strike, but we already know that there are SWAN members joining the movement in: ... Read More
The Accidental Campaigner
The Accidental Campaigner James Corbett is an English teacher. He’s quite ordinary really. And yet here he is, on day 37 of a 46 day walk from Glasgow to London, collecting signatures for his petition to save the core of ... Read More
ADDACTION workers strike in Wigan
Substance misuse workers employed by the charity Addaction struck last week, after management refused to honour a two percent pay rise following the NHS Agenda for Change pay rate increase. This had been promised after former NHS workers were TUPED ... Read More
Solidarity With West Dunbartonshire
In June, West Dunbartonshire workers took the decision to vote for strike action, should their working conditions fail to immediately improve. SWAN Stands In Solidarity With West Dunbartonshire’s Social Workers As They Vote To Strike The needs and safety of ... Read More
Chinese Social Workers Arrested
Defend Chinese Social Workers! On Wednesday (8 May) Chinese police raided the offices of Hope college, a community centre in the southern city of Guangzhou that helps and supports migrant workers attending vocational schools. They detained social worker Liang Zicun ... Read More
SWAN SUPPORTS PROTESTS AGAINST TOMMY ROBINSON
NO TO FASCIST TOMMY ROBINSON IN SALFORD Fascist ‘Tommy Robinson’ has called a rally against the BBC in Salford, Greater Manchester on Saturday 23 February. The convicted racist criminal has no right to be on our publicly paid TV service ... Read More
Social Workers invited to Palestine April 2019 with PALUK.
Proposed Social Work trip to Palestine April 2019 Palestine UK Social Work Network (PALUK) This Network was conceived following the launch of the Global Development Agenda for Social Work, which was launched at the 2010 Biennial IFSW Global Conference. Under ... Read More
SWAN statement on Bristol’s social care: When ‘Better Care’ means worse care.
Austerity hit Bristol City’s social care services – when “Better Care” is worse care. The South West region of the Social Work Action Network (a nation-wide, radical, campaigning organisation of social work and social care practitioners, students, service users, carers ... Read More