SWU and 20 other unions have signed the Migrant Workers’ Pledge condemning the Government’s attempts to ‘pit’ workers against each other and calling for urgent action to advance the rights of migrant workers.
Understanding how dog whistles work, how they affect vulnerable and marginalised communities, and how to diffuse them are important tools for social workers.
SWU is establishing a ‘campaign’ fund for our members to call on to ensure campaigns throughout 2021/22 can be responsive to changing priorities, quick to deliver and high impact.
Central to the Shaping Social Workers’ Identity all-Ireland study is exploring whether the diversity of social work practice affects the professional identity of social work practitioners.
There have been a couple of events in recent weeks that have sharpened (my already sharp) focus on the identity of social workers in Wales and how the profession communicates this