SWU is proud to feature the winners of the SWU Assignment: World Social Work Day 2025 Essay Competition
Four social work students have each won a prize of £500 for their outstanding essays on social work training and practice.
Four social work students have each won a prize of £500 for their outstanding essays on social work training and practice.
Over 1 million people could be pushed newly or deeper into poverty by these cuts. It’s vital that you contact your MP and keep piling the pressure on.
This 2-part online training from the Hazards Campaign is open to all SWU members and will run across two sets of dates this summer.
Please help us build a national picture of the hidden costs of poverty and the pressures on frontline workers.
New research reveals that alarming staff shortages and deteriorating working conditions are putting children and adults at risk.
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.