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BASW backs the End Child Poverty campaign and encourages members to write to their local MP.

In this blog, I wish to focus not on the appointment process, or the chair himself - rather, on the hundreds of thousands of care experienced people this review will impact, many of whom will remain forever anonymous and unknown to us. 

There needs to be significant, long-term investment in children and young people across the country - with support services for vulnerable children and care leavers requiring urgent resources, both during and beyond the pandemic.

Gerry Nosowska joined a panel of experts to speak at the Westminster Education Forum last week.

Children, young people and parents who participated in the #GiveUsAChancellor campaign will be presenting to APPG for Children next week.

BASW has been concerned that private companies would be carrying out interviews with those who were seeking asylum and were or claimed to be under 18, without appropriate expertise or staff.

As social workers we will often see, first-hand, what poverty can do to children and their families.

BASW England Professional Officer Gavin Moorghen reflects on the growing issue of child food poverty in England and invites members to join an online event to consider possible solutions and our professional response.

Maris Stratulis has written to the Children’s Minister to urge the government to change its position on free school meals during the school holidays.

Coronavirus: During lockdown, there has been a worrying rise in the number of referrals to child protection unit