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Together, BASW and SWU will continue to campaign for social worker safety in the workplace.

In the response, the Immigration Minister referred to plans for a National Age Assessment Board (NAAB), a proposal that 50% of respondents to our survey disagreed with.

Kerri Prince, BASW Public and Political Affairs Lead, provides an update from Westminster

Dr Ruth Allen, BASW CEO, urges the Government to extend the deadline for the EUSS and create a more supportive environment for those who come forward.

BASW / SWU Advice & Representation Service Trade Union Officer Lisa Fitzpatrick writes an in-depth blog about the A&R Service for SWU's 10th Anniversary. She is passionate about working for a Trade Union with the values of social justice and equality as its core, to protect and support social workers.

BASW and SWU are engaging with Government to explore practical, effective and appropriate ways to improve social worker safety.

BASW England encourages members to share their views and feedback via our online survey, to help shape our formal response.

Any plan that does not centre the rights and dignity of people of all ages is not an immigration and asylum system that we could support.

BASWs Head of Policy and Research Luke Geoghegan chaired a session organised by The Children’s Society and the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit about children in care from the EU who need to register for the EU Settlement Scheme as soon as possible. 

The British Association of Social Workers - March 2020 to March 2021