Student-led SWU and SASW campaign wins postgraduate social work bursary increase in Scotland
Postgraduate social work student bursaries in Scotland will increase by almost 50% on average in the 2025-26 academic year.
Postgraduate social work student bursaries in Scotland will increase by almost 50% on average in the 2025-26 academic year.
This is indeed good news for social work and for SWU to have such a key role within the GFTU.
All three motions delivered by SWU at the GFTU’s 106th Biennial General Council Meeting were received positively and unopposed.
SWU has written to health ministers for all four UK nations urging them to address the mental health crisis in the UK.
We must stand together firmly, as both social workers and trade unionists, and reject this division which seeks to weaken us as a movement.
Social work students & apprentices submit your entries by end of day June 14th for the chance to win £500.
While national politics fills our news feeds, local government determines everything from the buses we take to the parks our children play in and the wages and conditions of the people employed to provide vital services.
We believe that everyone should have the right to live full lives, that people ultimately best understand their own capacity, and that human worth isn’t measured by productivity.
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Gerry Madden reflects on the BASW Northern Ireland and Social Workers Union event held in Derry on 2nd April 2025. “I was absolutely delighted recently to represent SWU at the launch of the BASW NI and SWU research report ‘The Read more