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

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

SWAN PICKETS THE 2018 SOCIAL WORKER OF THE YEAR AWARDS SWAN and our supporters took the case against unethical corporate sponsorship to the Social Worker of the Year Awards and held a friendly picket outside London’s plush Royal Lancaster Hotel ... Read More

SWAN and In Defence of Youth Work are both concerned about the corporate sponsorship of awards ceremonies for Social Work and Youth Work from organisations profiting from austerity or human rights abuses: https://socialworkfuture.org/2018/10/08/statement-released-condemning-capita-and-ingeus-involvement-in-awards/ Statement Released Condemning Capita and Ingeus … ... Read More

SWAN Statement condemning the corporate sponsorship of the 2018 Social Worker of the Year by Capita and Children & Young People Now Awards by Ingeus   SWAN is extremely concerned at the level of corporate sponsorship creeping back into those ... Read More

SWAN was appalled to learn of the coercion of children in the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) programme concerning terrorism, child sexual exploitation and gangs involved in drug dealing (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/20/child-spies-used-only-when-very-necessary-says-downing-street). SWAN is fundamentally opposed to the use of children in ... Read More

Follow this link to the SWWB webpage, where you can photos of the day, and our joint statement condemning the US policy of family separation. https://www.socialworkerswithoutborders.org/campaigning/ Read More