The Prime Minister has been challenged by social workers on recent unfounded remarks he made about the profession during an interview with The London Economic.
Professor Christine Cocker, Head of School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, provides an update on developments in transitional safeguarding in this blog for BASW.
The UK Government has today (Tuesday, 4 April) announced that funding to develop the social care workforce in England will be half of what was initially promised.
As part of the ‘Social Work Stands Against Poverty’ campaign, BASW UK held a parliamentary reception in the Houses of Parliament on 27th March which was formally hosted by Alex Cunningham MP.