Jan
06
SWU Annual General Meeting 2025
Our upcoming AGM will be held on Friday 26th September 2025. This event is for SWU members only.
Author: SWU Comms
Dec
18
A festive message from the Social Workers Union
Another year comes to an end, and what a year 2024 has been. This year your union has been campaigning, launching new resources, and hosting and attending events across the UK. Highlights have included: The SWU Conference in Manchester was Read more
Dec
17
SWU/BASW office hours over the festive break
We will close on Tuesday, 24th December 2024 and will reopen on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
Dec
12
SWU statement on the murder of Sara Sharif
The case of Sara Sharif is dreadful, horrendous and sickening. In the UK this is a rare case but it shows the strain that the social work profession is under.
Dec
05
Social workers report poverty crisis for children
The cost-of-living crisis has led to a third of UK social workers witnessing child removals in the past three years where poverty or financial poverty has been a key factor.
Dec
03
National Grief Awareness Week 2024: Grief in the Workplace
Grief is generally seen as a private and personal matter and therefore tends not to be associated with public domains like the workplace.
Dec
02
Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism Rally 2024
SWU and SASW marched together under one banner to show that there is no room for racism or fascism in Scotland.
Nov
29
In Solidarity with the Palestinian People
As a human rights-based profession, we cannot stay silent. The ongoing violent escalation in the region cannot be allowed to become normalised.
Nov
28
Dog whistle narratives – xenophobia
People moving is a fact of life – we always have, and always will. It’s time those who hold positions of power in this country recognised that.
Nov
20
Trans Day of Remembrance, 20 November 2024
Today we honour the lives of all the trans and non-binary people who have been killed by anti-transgender violence and discrimination.