Social Work Action Network response to Grenfell Tower and Unison petition against National Accreditation and Assessment System

Social Work Action Network (Swan) brings together social work academics, students, practitioners and service users to campaign for social work that advances society rather than the twin dysfunctionalities of 'managerialism' and privatisation.(1)

The following is presented here with permission as a Guest blog post, having been received by the Kwug Blog editor as a Swan London mailing list member.

Social Work Action Network response to Grenfell Tower and Unison petition against NAAS

Dear SWAN London supporters,

Grenfell Tower

SWAN has issued the following statement on the Grenfell Tower tragedy:
http://socialworkfuture.org/articles-resources/uk-articles/567-swan-statement-on-the-grenfell-disaster-social-work-must-critique-policy-not-simply-deliver-it

Here is another insightful blog on the same topic posted on the BASW site:
https://www.basw.co.uk/blog/blog_read.php?pid=33

National Assessment and Accreditation Systems (NAAS)

You may be familiar with Unison's recent national survey about the proposed National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) for Childrens' Social Workers. SWAN support Unison's position that the government should scrap plans to roll out its new assessment and accreditation scheme for social workers because it will take up valuable time that could be spent helping families in need.

Unison has just launched an on-line national petition to call on the new Minister for Children to drop the NAAS.

Here is the link to the petition, which non- Unison members can also sign:

https://action.unison.org.uk/ page/10353/petition/1?en_chan= tw  

In solidarity

SWAN London

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Social Work Action Network (SWAN) London

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Social Work Action Network London regrouping meeting

Swan London Convenor Dan has welcomed Dude Swheatie's offer of posting the following on the Kwug blog. Social Work Action Network brings together social work practitioners, service users, academics and students 

• against privatisation and cuts in public services and
• for user-lead organisations in a world where people matter more than global corporations' capacity to create profit for their shareholders.

Dan wrote:

The SWAN National Conference on 4th June and the European Social Work Day of Solidarity with Refugees on the 5th at the Calais and Dunkirk camps went extremely well. Papers from the conference are below:

http://www.socialworkfuture.org/conferences/upcoming-annual-conference/490-agm-documents-available

We write in order to inform you that we aiming to regroup SWAN London in the coming months including getting a new coordinating team together, bolstered by some of the activists at the conference. If you are interested in helping us to run the group and to contribute to radical social work in London, please get in touch.

We are also hoping to run an event on Social Work with Refugees, possibly in conjunction with BASW [British Association of Social Workers], in the Autumn. More information will follow.

Stay tuned and stay radical.  

Dan

SWAN London

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