BASW AGM: Motion 5
From the Coventry and Warwickshire BASW branch.
BASW members can provide comments on motions ahead of the AGM on Tuesday 15 September.
Please view the short film presenting this motion, read the motion text and scroll to the bottom of the page to leave your comments by 6.00pm, Monday 14th September 2020.
Full details of the motion are:
The Annual General Meeting in 2019 unanimously agreed that BASW would campaign against discrimination and suffering caused by No Recourse to Public Funds, and would proactively support social workers to advocate for the human rights of people who have No Recourse to Public Funds. This Annual General Meeting notes the heightening tensions around racism and oppression of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups of people from George Floyd’s death in the United States of America, and also the inequalities that ethnic minority groups face from COVID-19.
This Annual General Meeting agrees that BASW will:
- Continue to campaign against discrimination and suffering caused by No Recourse to Public Funds, including through challenging the law
- Challenge the conditions that people, especially children, with No Recourse to Public Funds are subjected to and require a review of these
- Push for No Recourse to Public Funds to be removed from children’s asylum status
- Provide guidance to social workers around No Recourse to Public Funds to ensure practice is more supportive for people who are subjected to No Recourse to Public Funds.
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