Social Workers Union
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The Social Workers Union (SWU) is a trade union dedicated to social work professionals in the UK.
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British Association of Social Workers
2 days ago
Training and Events to look forward to in the next month! 🙌 BASW is your one-stop shop for social work professional development - ensuring you get the expertise, insights, skills, and confidence to help you build your career and strengthen your practice. View on the link below! 🔗
basw.co.uk/events
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Northern Ireland Social Care Council
2 days ago
📢 We’ve recently published our first-ever Engagement Strategy 2026-2031, setting out our engagement priorities for the next five years. 💻 Learn more and access the Strategy here -
https://niscc.info/engaging-together-making-a-difference-social-care-council-launches-engagement-strategy/
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Disability Rights UK
3 days ago
📢Have your say in the Timms Review on PIP changes We strongly encourage Disabled people to share your thoughts on PIP, calling for a system that is not punitive and instead supports us to live independently and with respect. More info 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/new-cal...
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New Call for Evidence for Timms Review
https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/new-call-evidence-timms-review
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General Federation of Trade Unions
2 days ago
🚩Happy
#MayDay
from
#GFTU
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#Solidarity
to all on International Workers’ Day. 👀 We’ll be at events across the country over the next week, standing with trade unionists and activists, celebrating workers everywhere.
#WorkersMakeHistory
#InternationalWorkersDay
#MayDay2026
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Northern Ireland Social Care Council
4 days ago
We’ve published draft ‘Social work and social care research, evidence, innovation and improvement strategy 2026 – 2031.’ We now invite your feedback. 📝 Take part -
https://consultations2.nidirect.gov.uk/hsc/consultation-research-strategy-2026
📅 Deadline: Wednesday 22 July at 5pm
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📢 A statement from the Migrant Workers’ Rights Coalition for
#MayDay2026
and an invitation to join the Migrant Workers’ Rights Bloc on May 4th in London:
swu-union.org.uk/2026/04/may-...
#MayDay
#LDNMayDay
#MigrantsRightsAreWorkersRights
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
@ldnmayday.bsky.social
3 days ago
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Scottish Association of Social Work
4 days ago
Ask your local candidates what they intend to do for you, those you support, and social work as a profession. Getting active can seem daunting, but it needn't be. Our Election Hub and Manifesto have all the information you need. Election Hub:
buff.ly/RbhKcx1
Manifesto:
buff.ly/UbnyeWW
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Scottish Association of Social Work
3 days ago
We’re delighted to welcome Baroness Ruth Lister CBE onto the podcast to discuss a range of topics, from social justice to human rights, asylum and immigration, child safeguarding, and raising social work’s voice in parliament. Listen now:
https//buff.ly/hbM...
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Stop the War Coalition
4 days ago
📣 ASSEMBLY POINT ANNOUNCEMENT 🇵🇸 Nakba 78 March for Palestine 🫂 United Against Tommy Robinson and the far right 🗓️ Saturday 16 May ⏰ Noon 📍 Assemble Exhibition Road, SW7 🚍 Book coaches asap:
stopwar.org.uk/events/nakba...
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Joe Hanley
3 days ago
I understand why they did the poll this way, but after over a decade of bursary freeze for social workers, this is all just rearranging deck chairs. If the real solution (more financial support across the board) was on offer (here or in the consultation) there would be no 'divided' about it.
add a skeleton here at some point
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End Fuel Poverty Coalition
3 days ago
"We try to stay in bed a bit longer each morning, or ride on buses during the day to keep warm." That's a pensioner in their 80s telling
@age-uk.bsky.social
l how they cope with energy costs in 2026. [1/3]
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Just Fair
3 days ago
🚨 New figures released today show another record broken – 176,00 children growing up in temporary accommodation. Behind every number is a child without the stability of a safe home. Housing is a human right. These figures show that right is being denied.
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Social Work Today
5 days ago
Charities warn of ‘sustained attack on
#children’s
rights’ in new
#migration
proposals. Read:
www.socialworktoday.co.uk/News/chariti...
@basw-uk.bsky.social
@swu-uk.bsky.social
@nspcc.bsky.social
@becomecharity.org.uk
@together-sacr.bsky.social
@fosteringnet.bsky.social
@praxisprojects.bsky.social
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Today on
#InternationalWorkersMemorialDay
we remember workers who’ve lost their lives, been injured, or made ill through work. This year’s theme ‘psychosocial risks and mental wellbeing at work’ is a pressing issue for social workers:
swu-union.org.uk/2026/04/inte...
#IWMD2026
#MayDay2026
5 days ago
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General Federation of Trade Unions
5 days ago
🌹 We remember workers who’ve lost their lives, been injured, or made ill through work.
#Solidarity
with workers everywhere. Safe work is a right, not a privilege. ✊ Remember the dead. Fight for the living.
#IWMD
#InternationalWorkersMemorialDay
#GFTU
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London May Day Organising Committee
5 days ago
Less than one week to go until we turn
#London
red 🌹 Workers Make History. Assemble 12 noon Clerkenwell Green, opposite Marx Memorial Library. Monday 4 May 2026. Be part of the biggest
#LDNMayDay
for a generation.
#MayDay
#MayDay26
#GeneralStrike100
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British Association of Social Workers
6 days ago
Caring about children's rights means caring about the rights of every child. 🧡 That's why alongside 140+ organisations we're speaking out against new Home Office proposals that will put thousands of migrant and refugee children in the UK at risk of poverty, homelessness and trauma.
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
6 days ago
Today we’re at the all-party parliamentary group on Migration meeting about the right to work for people seeking asylum in the UK. People seeking asylum in the UK are effectively prohibited from working and instead must rely on asylum support of just over £7 per day. [1/2]
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SWU sends solidarity to the Jewish community and those directly affected by the recent targeted arson attacks in London. British Jews have the right to live without fear of harassment or violence, and as social workers and trade unionists we stand with them against antisemitism.
12 days ago
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Northern Ireland Social Care Council
16 days ago
The new community development resource enables social workers to develop their skills, building on a “community of practice’ ethos with authentic examples from undergraduate and postgraduate social workers and the lived experience of service users. Find out more here -
https://ow.ly/Z1tr50YBIPn
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📢 Social work students and apprentices in the UK - answer the
#SWUAssignment
#WSWD2026
essay question for the chance to win one of four £500 grants. 📝
swu-union.org.uk/world-social...
17 days ago
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NASUWT Scotland
14 days ago
📣📣 REMINDER 📣📣 The Scottish Parliament election will take place on 7 May 2026. Remember the deadlines below 👇 🚨 20 April: Register to vote by 11:59pm 🚨 21 April: Apply for a postal vote by 5pm 🚨 28 April: Apply for a proxy vote by 5pm
www.gov.uk/register-to-...
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Register to vote
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
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Big Issue
13 days ago
The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters
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'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters
https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/renters-housing-benefit-cuts-shortfall/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1776665539
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Runnymede Trust
13 days ago
What actually keeps us safe? Drawing on polling of over 5,000 people across Britain, we found that over half of the public believe investing in social and public services would do more to prevent crime than increasing police numbers or powers
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Commissioner for Human Rights
19 days ago
We must resist the narrative that
#HumanRights
are an obstacle to efficiency, to progress or to innovation. Human rights are the only universally agreed roadmap to honour human dignity. Read my newsletter for March 2026 👇
nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/SWg2G0gt...
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Scottish Association of Social Work
16 days ago
The guides below, from ourselves and Everyone's Vote Matters, can be of help to practitioners who are supporting people who may want to vote. Promote the Vote:
buff.ly/JraN55Q
Everyone's Vote Matters:
buff.ly/M5Grk3h
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British Association of Social Workers
17 days ago
📰 A review into the disproportionately higher number of care leavers who die young is being launched by the Westminster government. This review must listen to the experiences of young care leavers and result in long-term meaningful action that better protects and supports young people.
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Dr Tom Riddington
22 days ago
Recognising unpaid care as work is one long overdue part of tackling the UK's care crisis. Doctors in Unite have been involved with End Social Care Disgrace, who have a local election campaign pack here:
endsocialcaredisgrace.org/local-electi...
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Britain's shadow workforce is paid as little as 65p an hour. Who cares for the carers? | Frances Ryan
Carer’s allowance turns 50 this year, but it’s no reflection of the labour of the millions who cook, clean and nurse behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/11/carers-allowance-britain-unpaid-workforce
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Disability Rights UK
18 days ago
Our Work Capability Assessment factsheet has just been updated! It includes new information on the limited capability for work-related activity amount - which changed as of April 6th to two different rates, as a result of the Universal Credit Bill 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/resources/wo...
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Work Capability Assessment
https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/resources/work-capability-assessment
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GFTU Educational Trust
18 days ago
🔥 We’ve officially launched our TikTok on Tom Mann's birthday! 🎉 👀 Insights from our education programmes 🗣️ Voices from across GFTU 🎬 Behind the scenes access 📺 Check out our first video & follow us for more - https://www.tiktok.com/@gftuet1899/video/7628932359139740950
#GFTUET
#TikTokForTom
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End Fuel Poverty Coalition
18 days ago
📋New research out today puts numbers to what many households are already living through: 31% of people have been cutting back on essentials like food and heating, 66% are worried about their finances, and over half are carrying debt. [1/3]
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Just Fair
17 days ago
🍽️ Food insecurity is a human rights issue. The Right to Food Commission is calling for evidence to help build a stronger case for action. We are currently working on our own submission for this and encourage others to submit as well.
www.ianbyrne.org/rtf...
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📢 Social work students and apprentices in the UK - answer the
#SWUAssignment
#WSWD2026
essay question for the chance to win one of four £500 grants. 📝
swu-union.org.uk/world-social...
17 days ago
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SWU wishes a very happy Vaisakhi to everyone celebrating! We join you in today’s celebration of equality, justice, solidarity, and community. 🌾🥁🎉
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Child Poverty Action Group
27 days ago
Scrapping the two-child limit is a gamechanger for children who have been going without the things they need to learn & grow. This was one of the nastiest policies for children in modern times. Its removal is a ray of hope & an essential first step towards ensuring every child has a fair start.
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National Children's Bureau
26 days ago
Over the weekend, there was great news for children. 450,000 will be lifted out of poverty thanks to the two-child limit being scrapped. As part of the End Child Poverty campaign, we have long called for this unfair policy to be removed. Find out more about the campaign at:
endchildpoverty.org.uk
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On International Romani Day we are highlighting the 'Reflection, Objective, Movement and Action (ROMA) Model' published by the Romani & Traveller Social Work Community Group. Learn more about this framework for ethical, evidence informed, and rights based practice:
swu-union.org.uk/2024/08/roma...
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European Roma Rights Centre
25 days ago
#8April
calls for real solidarity. For too long, many of our comrades have been selective in their solidarity for other racialized & minority groups. If we expect others to stand up for us, we must do the same for them. The far-right is not someone else's emergency 👉
www.errc.org/news/interna...
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SWU wishes a happy Easter to everyone celebrating this weekend! 🌷🐇🐣🌿 We hope everyone in our social work community is enjoying this long weekend, whether you are celebrating with family and community or taking time out to reflect and recharge.
29 days ago
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SWU is proud to march with
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TOGETHER
we can: - Unite against the far right. - Reject narratives of division and racism. - Build solidarity across communities. Creating a powerful sense of unity and positivity.
@davesocialist.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Together Alliance
about 1 month ago
Emotional. We turned up in our hundreds of thousands. With love, joy and hope in bucketloads. Know that today wasn’t the end of a journey, it was the beginning. This is how we’ll turn the tide against the far right. We outnumber them, now let’s outorganise them.
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Northern Ireland Social Care Council
about 1 month ago
Don’t miss your opportunity to attend our latest Lunchtime Seminar on developing research skills in palliative care: staff stress, advance care planning and compassionate communities 2nd April | 12:00–1:30pm Sign up here -
https://ow.ly/XJrv50YB5jy
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Social Care Wales
about 1 month ago
📆 Don’t forget that our new Codes of Professional Practice come into effect on 1 July. The updated codes are shorter and clearer, with refreshed practice guidance to support day‑to‑day work. 👉 Explore the new codes, guidance and resources:
https://socialcare.wales/codes
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Social Work England
about 1 month ago
Following a recent consultation, we've now published new guidance on adjudicator consensual disposal processes in fitness to practise cases. You can read the full guidance here:
https://ow.ly/cRzn50YBG6F
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Scottish Association of Social Work
about 1 month ago
Take your CPD mobile with our podcast series! 📲 With 99 episodes to choose from - covering a vast range of social work practice and policy-related topics - whatever you're interested in listening to, we've got you covered! Apple:
apple.co/3g7YcE0
Spotify:
sptfy.in/d2ur
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Together Alliance
about 1 month ago
This is what unity against the far right looks like. Half a million people coming together to march for love, hope + unity.
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SWU is proud to march with
@togetheralliance.bsky.social
#TOGETHER
we can: - Unite against the far right. - Reject narratives of division and racism. - Build solidarity across communities. Creating a powerful sense of unity and positivity.
@davesocialist.bsky.social
@sarahwoolley1.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Child Poverty Action Group
about 1 month ago
New data shows 4 million children are living in poverty. Removal of the two-child limit is an important first step in making life better for kids. But government will have to invest in sustained support for children and families to meet its ambition to give every child the best start.
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End Fuel Poverty Coalition
about 1 month ago
New research from
@swu-uk.bsky.social
finds hundreds of social workers have been personally funding essentials for vulnerable people, including energy prepayment top-ups, because emergency support systems are too slow or too complex to navigate in a crisis. [1/3]
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