The plight of women with no recourse to public funds and those trapped in abusive relationships because of fears of being deported were highlighted at the BASW England Conference.
The role of social workers as the main registered social care profession within integrated systems must be heard and represented within any new structures.
With male suicide at a two-decade high and accounting for three-quarters of all those taking their life in England and Wales, social work student Ashleigh Gonera wrote the following poem to highlight the issue