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Update on key international news and activities by Ruth Allen, CEO BASW 

People in public-facing jobs across all sectors – including social work – have been subjected to rising hostility and abuse since the end of the COVID-19 lockdowns. SWU has been approached by Olivia Blake MP – one of several cross-party MPs backing the ICS’s Service with Respect campaign – to become involved.

Social worker 'LK' on how using Social Work Employment Services transformed her relationship with umbrella companies.

BASW chair Gerry Nosowska, who attended with BASW CEO Ruth Allen and observers Debbie Ryding and Ellen Paladini-Stone, report back to members.

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, BASW is sharing a diary of an Emergency Duty Team (EDT) social worker.

Dr Martyn Higgins, Associate Editor of British Journal of Social Work, in conversation with Paul Michael Garrett PhD, one of social work's leading radical educators

​​​​​​​Social workers must challenge the Government’s plan to cut Universal Credit, says BASW member Jon Dudley.

​​​​​​​BASW chair Gerry Nosowska on how BASW England is speaking up for social work as the Health and Care Bill progresses through Parliament.

As a social worker, BASW vice-chair Lewis Roberts sees rising poverty levels and the devastating impact this is having on society

Social workers deserve to work in supportive organisations where they can have voice and influence - and where leaders and managers understand what social workers need to fulfil their roles.