For some, trade unions are a blast from the past. Their heyday in the 1970s was a decade of collective action, strikes and the occasional riot. It sometimes seems that the only survivors from that era ...

Two former chairs of the British Association of Social Workers, concerned at the threat to launch a breakaway UK college, are urging the professional body to return to the official development group.

The idea was to give social workers the status they have long sought and envied of other professions. By setting up a college of social work, eventually to become a royal college, it was hoped to make ...

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has warned that children's social work is among professions worst affected by rising living costs. Social workers are being heavily impacted by rising ...

Social work education provides students with a unique opportunity to apply what they are learning in the classroom to practice in the field. Working in a social work field agency allows students to ...

As funding is withdrawn from the college set up in the wake of Baby P to raise the standing of the profession, could the rival British Association of Social Workers transform itself into the body ...

The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has announced that Ruth Allen will take over as chief executive in April. Allen will move to BASW from her current role as director of social work at ...

A new role centred on race has been established to provide strategic leadership across Wales. The British Association of Social Workers Cymru (BASW Cymru) announced Singeta Kalhan-Gregory as the first ...