What is Swan? Poster – Resource for All!
Many of you have been asking for something to display in universities, workplaces or to give to colleagues. please find attached a poster that you can download or print off as you wish! Read More
Swan International Statement and Petition – Open Borders Now!
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
Manifesto 2004: The Foundations of Swan
In 2004, the following manifesto was released calling for the ethical core of social work to be respected and preserved, against increasing managerialism and privatisation under a New Labour government. Read More
Swan’s Terry Murphy speaks out about Frontline
Listen through the following link to Swan's Terry Murphy (Teeside University) challenging Frontline's Josh McAllister on BBC Tees. Read More
Refugees Welcome Joint Statement And Call For Action.
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
Community-led Housing Conference
******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
Community-led Housing Conference
******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
Voices From The Frontline: A practitioner’s perspective on PREVENT.
As the government's policies on preventing and tackling radicalisation in young people once more hits the headlines, one practitioner explores the social work role in working with those identified as 'radicalised': Read More
Mental Health Charter with Updated Signatories – A Resource for All
The SWAN 2014 conference at Durham University saw a unanimous vote in favour of a Mental Health Charter, developed in response to the ballooning crisis in UK wide mental health services. Read More
“Why Do You Sit By and Allow Me To Live Like This?” – The Story Behind the Pictures
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
More Convoy photos! Keep them coming…
Photos of Liverpool Hope University's efforts and the demo in Calais on Sat 17th Oct... Read More
Successful Convoy! Some sneaky peeks…
We will be soon uploading a full report of the convoy to Calais to the website. Read More
Official Statement – Help and Support for Refugees in the UK and Europe
As the #socialworkconvoy gets under way, Swan releases its official statement and call for action regarding the needs of refugees across Europe. Read More