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“Social workers’ skills and interventions keep people safe from harm and change lives. But there simply aren’t enough of them to deal with ​increasing demand. New recruits […]

Move comes on International Social Work Day and explores both the state of social work in the UK today and the union’s hopes for the future

“Children and family social work has always been a challenging and busy field, however after 20 years I feel I can say that I have never seen things this bad.”

Members and the public are urged to back the call to ‘protect the rights of vulnerable children and care leavers’ from plans in new bill

And as an organisation built on solidarity and togetherness, UNISON would like to pay tribute to the social work teams […]

Social workers and occupational therapists are taking their fourth and fifth days of strike action this week

Date

23 September 2023 10:30am–4:00pm

Location

UNISON Centre, 130 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AY

UNISON is holding a Social Work Seminar on Saturday 23rd September 2023 in UNISON Centre London

Union’s local government conference hears call to boycott government’s controversial new scheme

The government must give councils the cash they need to recruit more child protection staff and keep all children safe

Government plans to reform the delivery of children’s social care have been overwhelmingly rejected by practising social workers in a new report published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. UNISON says the proposals could prove dangerous for children and fail to tackle any of the fundamental problems social workers deal with on a daily basis. UNISON says […]

“Children and family social workers are all too often facing caseloads that are far too high and many do not have the necessary levels […]

How long, she asked, “does it take a social worker to change a lightbulb? Five minutes – and then three hours to do the paperwork to justify the […]

In a statement late last week, the organisations condemned the impact of welfare transformation and austerity on the lives of some of the most […]

Significant changes needed to give proper support instead of ‘firefighting’

The DfE say they will be devising a new model to be in place by the end of 2022 and UNISON is meeting with them to discuss what approach they […]