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As a community-based Social Worker for Adult Social Care, I normally visit residential care homes on a regular basis. That changed in February this year when the fears around COVID-19 grew and the care homes voluntarily began to close their doors to “non-essential visitors”.

Find all of the links and resources mentioned during the BASW England Relationship-based Practice Week Events

The 80-20 campaign is all about getting back to our social work roots by creating more time for relationship-based practice.

It was clear that BASW has built some very important relationships within Europe which I see as contributing positively to the developing future and ongoing progression of Social Work.

Last week I gave a talk to the Academy of Social Justice about Living Our Values: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in BASW - the sad fact is we are still a fair way from fully embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in social work systems

Our profession remains strong and sustained by the ethics and purpose that we share with our sister organisations across the globe.

Recognising the unique and important contribution that social workers make during lockdown and beyond

Black History Month maybe over as a calendar event, but Black History didn't start nor ends in October. So here is another piece from the Black Professionals Symposium group

Russell Hogarth, who sits on the BASW at 50 years steering group, shares his own personal experiences of 'lockdowns' and contrasts them with the experience of Covid-19 restrictions

Black Lives Matter: No more silence! A poem by Maureen Mguni for Black History Month, looking back over a turbulent year