Previous Conferences

Book now for the inaugural SWAN North East Conference will take place at Teesside University, Middlesbrough on Saturday 17th November 2012. The theme of the conference: Practising in a Cold Climate looks at developing positive and progressive practice at a time of major national cuts to services. There will be a variety of workshops on sharing practitioners experiences across the region and looking at how to best collate evidence to positively influence decision makers and the media portrayals of our work regionally. Read More

Welcome to SWAN Conference 2012 - Day 1 Please find below snippets of information and quotes from the first session on inequality in Britain by Danny Dorling: DANNY DORLING - Suspects inequality growing faster now than since records began in 1918 - As a % GDP UK govt spending lower by 2015 than any other country including US Read More

SWAN would like to announce that the final timetable for our 2012 conference - 'Cuts, crisis, and resistance – building alliances in social work and social care' - has now been released, please find this attached.  You can find out more about our seventh national conference here. Read More

This section is under construction: More presentations will be added soon... In this section you will find presentations from the plenary and workshop sessions of SWAN Conference 2011 in Birmingham. Read More

In this section you will find resources from previous SWAN conferences such as speaker info, powerpoint presentations, papers and abstracts. This section is still under construction, but we hope to have further materials from the most recent SWAN Conference which ... Read More

Over the past few months, SWAN Liverpool has been busy organising the next annual SWAN conference!! The conference is to be held at Liverpool Hope University (Everton campus) on Friday 30th-Saturday 31st March 2011. The conference takes place against a ... Read More

SWAN National Conference 2011 in collaboration with In Defence of Youth Work 'Building Alliances, Defending Services' Dates: Friday 15th April to Saturday 16th April 2011 Venue: Avon Rooms, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham Read More

Cuts, crisis, and resistance – Building alliances in social work and social care The Seventh Annual Social Work Action Network Conference (SWAN) will be hosted by Liverpool Hope University on 30 and 31 March 2012 Further information below and at this link: hope.ac.uk/swanconf2012 Read More

The 5th Social Work Action Network (SWAN) national UK conference is being held in Glasgow Caledonian University on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th September 2010.  In the context of massive impending cuts in public sector spending, the conference will be an important opportunity to build the networks of resistance necessary to defend social work and welfare spending more generally.  Read More

Please find below the final programme for the 6th National SWAN conference. A programme containing workshop streams can be downloaded at the bottom of the page. Read More

A list of speakers and contributors for the 6th annual SWAN conference, 15-16 April, can be found below. Speaker Biographies Sue White Sue White is Professor of Social Work (Children and Families) at the University of Birmingham. She is a registered social worker and was employed as a practitioner and manager in statutory children’s services for 13 years.  Her research focuses primarily on the analysis of professional decision making in child welfare practice. During 2009 Sue served on the Social Work Task Force and now sits on the Social Work Reform Board. She is Chair of the Association of Professors of Social Work and is currently serving on the Reference Group for the Munro Review of Child Protection in England. Read More

Change the course of social work   The next SWAN national conference is the eighth. It takes place at Durham University on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th April 2014. We will regularly update the SWAN website with information about speakers ... Read More

Booking for SWAN Conference 2011 This page contains information about how to register for the conference and how to pay. Please also ensure you register online or by post so that we have your details. This will also allow us to send you an acknowledgement and receipt of payment. Read More