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With the green paper on adult social care continuing to be delayed, and with Brexit confounded matters further, this new inquiry into the future of social care couldn’t be better timed.

Alistair Brown to take over the post of National Director of the Scotland Office as Trisha Hall retires after almost 6 years.

SASW statement on the outcome of the Significant Case Review into the murder of a woman in South Ayrshire.

Read our statement on concerns raised by social workers in West Dunbartonshire council.

BASW calls for relationship based, co-production at ministerial meeting discussing recent reforms to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

SASW has written to Finance Secretary, Derek Mackay MSP, urging the Scottish Government to exempt social workers from the parking tax.

The culmination of a two-year study conducted by an international team of academics, Voices of Social Work Through The Troubles, gives a platform to social workers as they recount putting their safety on the line—working behind barricades and amidst bomb-scares—to protect people at risk of abuse and neglect.