BASW AGM: Motion 7
From the Black Country 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:
This Annual General Meeting supports the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s intended application for judicial challenge of the Secretary of State for failing to implement the movement of up to 50% of people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism out of hospital by 2018, which has violated their right to a private and family life. The Annual General Meeting advocates for the urgent implementation of a social model of care and radical structural change in the arrangements to meet these needs.
This Annual General Meeting requests that a clear action plan is drawn up by BASW’s Council and Executive which includes:
- Support for lobbying of relevant UK and national government departments, other non-governmental and statutory bodies
- Action that needs to be urgently undertaken to make progress and publicity given to alternative models of care to demonstrate the key roles that social workers and advocates should take
- Support by BASW for carers, friends and families and people who are caught up in these abusive arrangements.
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