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
We will close on Tuesday, 24th December 2024 and will reopen on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
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.
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.
Grief is generally seen as a private and personal matter and therefore tends not to be associated with public domains like the workplace.
SWU and SASW marched together under one banner to show that there is no room for racism or fascism in Scotland.
As a human rights-based profession, we cannot stay silent. The ongoing violent escalation in the region cannot be allowed to become normalised.
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.
Today we honour the lives of all the trans and non-binary people who have been killed by anti-transgender violence and discrimination.
I’m looking forward to developing our activist members’ confidence, skills, and networks. Now more than ever we need members to play an active part in their union so consider becoming a SWU Union Contact.