Video: COVID – Inequalities and Health
Swan’s Michael Lavalette interview’s author Lee Humber on issues of climate change, health inequalities and class in the context of COVID-19. Read More
WATCH: Human Right Live Stream
As part of our series of live streams based on covid-19 crisis and the impact on social work practice, we focused on human rights and how during this periods these have been reduced. We were happy to have Derek Boothy ... Read More
Reflections upon the realities of working during COVID-19
I am an Adults Services social worker, working from home with my partner and our children. While she’s a part time teacher, and it’s difficult on the days when we’re both working, we have work, we are managing and we are safe. That’s not ... Read More
Summary of the first Workers’ Experience Meeting: 7-5-20.
You may have noticed that SWAN is using a variety of formats to debate government policies and the role of social work during the current pandemic. Thursday evenings have seen us co-host several huge international webinars with the IFSW, as ... Read More
Watch: Race, Racism and Covid-19
Weyman Bennett, Stand up to Racism and Gurnam Singh, Professor of social work, join Michael Lavalette in discussion around the imbalance of BAME deaths during the Covid-19 crisis. Read More
Join Sharing Practitioners’ Experiences Online Forum
We will be hosting an online forum for social workers across the UK to discuss what is happening to social work right now during the Covid-19 crisis but also what has to change. The crisis has highlighted problems in an ... Read More
WATCH: SWAN & IFSW Episode 4
The fourth installment of our webinar series with International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). We were privileged to be joined by Robert and Janestic to discuss the response and demands on social workers in Uganda and Brazil, detailing the root ... Read More
WATCH: Practice-focussed live stream
We were joined by Ruth Allen, British Association of Social Work, Mark Harrison, Reclaiming Our Future Alliance and Bea Kay, Social Work Action Network to discuss the specific issues relative to social work practice during this period of crisis. Social ... Read More
Watch: Episode 2 of International Perspectives
Enjoy the second in a series of international meetings with the International Federation of Social Workers in relation to social work responses to Covid-19. We were joined with Kerry Cuskelly from Ireland, Jennifer Thompson from New Jersey, Sug Pyo Kim ... Read More
CANCELLED: Social Work Action Network Annual Conference
As many would have expected we have decided to cancel this year Social Work Action Network Conference due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. We will continue to organise online meeting such as out Social Work and Covid-19: International Perspectives, which ... Read More
Watch: International Perspectives
We brought together social work activists from around the world to the discuss social work and the Covid-19 crisis through an international lens. This is just the start of a series of live streams and videos we will be publishing, ... 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