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Did you know that the House of Commons Education Committee is running an inquiry into the Government’s approach to children’s social work reform? Read More

Swan Liverpool and Swan Scotland have collaborated to develop this special half day event in Glasgow's city centre. Read More

When Swan announced in September that it planned to organise a UK-wide convoy of collected materials for refugees, it never imagined that the response would be so large. Read More

Community Care journalist Rachel Shraer travelled with the convoy, organised by both Swan and Stand Up To Racism, to Calais on the 17th October 2015. Here you can read her report, highlighting the complexities of organising aid across borders, with ... Read More

Social Workers Across Europe demand - #OpenEUborders for refugees and asylum seekers (read on for the Greek, French, Spanish, German, Croatian and Hungarian versions) Read More

SWAN's Steering Committee prepared the statement and call for action which follows and facilitated for it to be accepted as a joint one by all UK social work organisations (APSW, BASW, JUC SWEC and SWAN).  Read More

                                                                ******DATE FOR YOUR DIARY******* North Dublin Bay Housing Crisis Community are organising this community-led housing conference for November 21st. This conference is being organised in conjunction with the Irish Housing Network. Members of SWAN are involved in this conference and we encourage all SWAN supporters to make the effort to attend. Read More

Jemma is a student at Liverpool Hope University, and took many stunning photos of the demo in Calais. Here she offers some thoughts on the solidarity and division that they portray: Read More

Photos of Liverpool Hope University's efforts and the demo in Calais on Sat 17th Oct... Read More

We will be soon uploading a full report of the convoy to Calais to the website. Read More

As the #socialworkconvoy gets under way, Swan releases its official statement and call for action regarding the needs of refugees across Europe. Read More

Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here! We are now in the last few days before the convoy sets off. Here are those important points of information you need. Read More

We are now one week away from the Social Work Action Network convoy to Calais. On the day we will drop our materials at the drop site, and then join the local campaign groups and refugees in a demonstration against their inhumane treatment. Read More