A&R Team Digest
A series of articles that share expert insight and guidance from our team of BASW/SWU Advice & Representation professionals.
- What to Expect from Fitness to Practice Hearings
- Navigating Fitness to Practice Processes (BASW/SWU members only content)
- Double-Jobbing (BASW/SWU members only content)
Guidance sheets for BASW/SWU members
From the day you join you will have access to 50+ guidance sheets created by the BASW/SWU A&R Team which may assist you in resolving a current issue or managing the immediate problem and by providing an overview of what to expect from the process. The sheets cover a wide range of employment and regulatory processes as well as tips on how to approach certain situations or to prepare for meetings.
BASW/SWU members can access these guidance sheets on the BASW website: https://basw.co.uk/support/advice-representation
Advice & Representation knowledgeable articles
Click on the links below to open the PDF files.
- Barbara Castle and Equal Pay Act
- Collective Bargaining and SWU
- Covid and Inequality in the Workplace
- Domestic Abuse Bill
- Duty of Care
- Getting arrested and being a Social Worker
- Health and Safety
- Indirect Discrimination
- Making Flexi Work Application
- Reflections on Return to Practice
- Self-care is a TU issue
- Service Users and Carers
- Stress as a TU Issue
- Ten Ways to Thrive in Social Work
- Unconscious Racial Bias
- Under Pressure
- UNISON – We do not poach members
- Whistleblowing
- Why Unions Matter
- Why we responded – SW parity
- Wrongful and Unfair Dismissal