📢 Social workers need better working conditions – now! At our conference in June, we launched a campaign with @SWU_UK calling for a better supported, resourced and respected social work profession. This week, we'll be revealing our campaign asks, and how you can get involved!

Calling all BASW Students! 📢 Less than a week left to submit your application to be a BASW Student Ambassador! Help us to connect social work students across the UK with their professional association. Find out more 🔗 https://t.co/vMnZ043Kf1

Understanding the full continuum of grieving styles and that multiple factors shape grief expression can help practitioners provide more effective & personalized support to bereaved individuals. Read @DrNeilThompson's blog for #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek: https://t.co/neZbqYsviT

More highlights from a packed 2025! ✨ Across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, BASW proudly serves, supports and represents our hard working members in all that we do. Check out a selection of our work over the past year on the link below. https://t.co/6CsQQwmTUG

🚨 Last chance to register! Join us tomorrow for our Poverty in Northern Ireland 2025 launch webinar. We'll be discussing the challenge for the Executive and how to remove the barriers keeping too many trapped in hardship. Don't miss out! Sign up now: https://t.co/vVWTLpIyJv

We'll also update on any further response we receive to our letter in due course. https://t.co/lgeMZFO51S

ICYMI: We have sought clarification from the Home Office about how new plans for earned settlement will affect social workers. Following a parliamentary question tabled by @CatSmithMP we have received a response from the Minister, which we have shared on the link below.

To mark Human Rights Day on 10th December, we're holding an online learning event about the assisted dying legislation at Westminster and Holyrood. Register here 🔗 https://t.co/6f0rFvrvp4

Read the full article below ⬇️ https://t.co/Qie79LB4zf

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities 🌍 Earlier this year, we spoke to Sally Parker, a member of BASW’s Experts by Experience Forum & her son Daniel, who has a learning disability & autism, to hear their reflections on Learning Disability Week. #DisabilityDay

🎉 As we approach 2026, we'll be sharing some of our favourite BASW moments from the past year! Working all year round to support and represent our members, advocate for the profession, and campaign for a fairer society across the UK. Read more 🔗 https://t.co/6CsQQwnrKe

🌟 Last chance to nominate! 🌟 Nominations will close TONIGHT for our Amazing Social Worker campaign! Complete the nomination form on the link below to give a shout out to a colleague and help us to celebrate outstanding social work practice. 🔗 https://t.co/0tTDxaExrd

Join our online practice workshop on Harmful Sexual Behaviours on Weds 3 Dec from 12pm. FREE for BASW Cymru members. Book via https://t.co/ncy1Xc1I65 @SocialCareWales @WGHealthandCare @ADSSCymru

Every child should get a good start in life. Removing the 2 child limit will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, and give them and their families a brighter future. It’s a policy that has caused so much poverty and hardship - the Government has listened and taken action.

Our Amazing Social Worker campaign shines a spotlight on creative and inspiring social work practice! 🔦 And importantly, every social worker we feature is nominated by you! But hurry, nominations close tomorrow evening! Learn more 🔗 https://t.co/0tTDxaExrd

📝 BASW is seeking clarification from the Home Secretary on how new plans for earned settled status will impact social workers. We will always stand up for social workers and ensure that the voice of our profession is heard throughout government. 🔗 https://t.co/lgeMZFO51S

🌍 Our Overseas Qualified Social Worker Programme is for social workers who have trained overseas and have moved or are planning to move to work in the UK. Find out more 🔗 https://t.co/A6172lr1Vf

Listen again to some of our top podcast episodes from 2025! 🐶 Beware of the dog 👥 Solidarity forever 🪜 Can we go higher? 🤝 The handover All episodes are available to listen for FREE on the links below. Apple 🔗 https://t.co/sGm96TnlPm Spotify 🔗 https://t.co/FkWIFHSnPZ

We were joined this afternoon at #ncasc25 by Minister for Care @SKinnock for an important discussion on the future of social care. On the risk of neighbourhood health being dominated by the NHS, he said: “Social care must stand alongside health, not behind it or underneath it.

Two-child limit to be abolished in major victory for anti-poverty campaigners. @CPAGUK @BASW_UK @childrensociety @barnardos @NSPCC @savechildrenuk @LGAcomms @ncbtweets @ADCStweets @ChildrensComm (1/2)

Why get involved in our Amazing Social Worker campaign? 💫 👉 Pay tribute to your colleagues 👉 Shine a spotlight on great practice 👉 Help us to raise the profile of social work Nominating an individual or a team before Tuesday is easy to do! ⬇️ https://t.co/0tTDxaExrd