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The Austerity Action Group, consisting of social workers and people with direct experience of using services, open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for decade long austerity policies to be rolled back as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

For World Social Work Day #WSWD2020 we join with social workers across the UK and worldwide to celebrate and recognise our profession’s vital work across global communities - today and every day.

BASW responds to the UK 2020 Budget and asks for more support for social care and public services.

A message from BASW chair Gerry Nosowska and CEO Ruth Allen

BASW comments on the newly elected government

To mark Human Rights Day on 10th December 2019 BASW has launched two documents

Mae Cymdeithas Brydeinig y Gweithwyr Cymdeithasol (BASW) yn galw ar ymgeiswyr seneddol yr holl bleidiau gwleidyddol i addo rhoi eu cefnogaeth i weithwyr cymdeithasol ac i’r plant, oedolion a’r teuluoedd hynny sy’n derbyn eu gwasanaethau

We are calling for support for social workers and the children, adults and families who use their services.

BASW comment on the Join Select Committee for Human Rights report calling for an overhaul of inspections and changes to the Mental Health Act to protect autistic adults and people with learning disability

BASW Cymru deeply is deeply concerned by and condemns the news of violence towards a social worker by a client in Bridgend. Social worker Gail Cotten was assaulted in the car park of the Bridgend council offices in June.