May
02
Austerity Action Group launches updated “Campaign Action Pack” at the SWU Conference in Manchester
SWU and BASW support the Campaign Action Pack and encourage social workers to make use of this brilliant and accessible resource.
Category: AAG
Apr
23
SWU AGM 2023 Update: Motion 5 Digital Poverty
Angi Naylor brings you up to date with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) Motion 5 and asks for your support and action. “This AGM recognises that the Austerity Action Group (Boot Out Austerity Marches On) continues to identify and lobby Read more
Apr
08
Updated Austerity Action Group “Campaign Action Pack” to be launched at the SWU Conference
SWU and BASW are proud to support the updating of this activism toolkit and hope you will join us for its launch on April 27 in Manchester.
Mar
05
International Women’s Day 2024 – Who better to celebrate on International Women’s Day than women Trade Unionists and Activists?
Women have played a key role in the British Trade Union movement since its inception – even in the face of poverty and deprivation experienced when out of work.
Dec
11
Young children being exposed to potentially life-threatening mould
Social workers are seeing families struggling in living conditions that are more like Victorian novels than modern day Britain.
Sep
01
Film review: The Old Oak (2023)
Review from the preview showing of the (possibly) last film directed by Ken Loach. The Old Oak will be in theatres from 29th September 2023.
Jun
29
Campaign Fund calls for bids from Wales – SWU and BASW Cymru Community of Practice
Social Workers are urged to find out more about how the SWU Campaign Fund could help them raise awareness of issues which they see in their work and among the vulnerable people they support.
May
12
Educational Psychologists and Social Workers join forces to fight cost of living crisis
“The conditions social workers and educational psychologists are witnessing today are like those which nineteenth century poor law campaigners reported.”
Apr
03
Austerity Action Group at “Poverty: A Black Country Perspective” event in Wolverhampton on April 18
Dr Pete Unwin and SWU Vice Chair and AAG Chair Angi Naylor will be joining up with The Blakenhall Writers once again at this BASW Black Country Branch Event in Wolverhampton.
Nov
15
See you at the SASW Conference on 22-23 November 2022
Join SWU at this year’s Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW) Conference. This year’s SASW Conference will be held online from November 22nd – 23rd and then followed by an informal social reception on the evening of Wednesday November 23rd Read more