A panel of A&R Trade Union Officers will answer your questions about disability rights and any other workplace issues you are experiencing.
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.
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.
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
SASW and SWU are calling on Aberdeen City Council to re-think proposals to cut the number of hours for social workers in the authority.
SWU and SASW understand Aberdeen City Council are proposing damaging changes to terms and conditions.