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The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) is the largest professional association of registered social workers and qualified care managers in the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
. The association has a members' code of ethics that outlines best social work practice and works to support social workers and care managers through education and resources. Headquartered in
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
, BASW has regional offices in
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(Birmingham),
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(
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),
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),
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(Swyddfa Cymru) (
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), and
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(Cymru Gogledd) (
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).


History

BASW was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the
Association of Child Care Officers The Association of Child Care Officers (ACCO) was the main professional body for social workers looking after the welfare of children in the United Kingdom from 1949 to 1970. In 1946 the interim report of the Curtis Committee on Children Deprived ...
, the
Association of Family Case Workers The Association of Family Case Workers (AFCW), known as the Association of General and Family Case Workers from 1954 to 1963, was the main professional body for social workers looking after the welfare of families in the United Kingdom from 1940 ...
, the
Association of Psychiatric Social Workers The Association of Psychiatric Social Workers (APSW) was the main professional body for social workers looking after the welfare of mentally ill people in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1970. In 1970 the association merged with six other socia ...
, the Association of Social Workers, the
Institute of Medical Social Workers The Institute of Medical Social Workers (IMSW) was the main professional body for medical social workers in the United Kingdom. It was formed from several "Almoners" organisations and took this name from 1964 until 1970. Ann Davidson Kelly was it ...
, the Moral Welfare Workers' Association, and the Society of Mental Welfare Officers. These were all members of the Standing Conference of Organisations of Social Workers (SCOSW), which had been formed in 1962 to bring together the different branches of the profession and which was wound up on the formation of BASW (the National Association of Probation Officers was also a member, but decided against joining the new association). The chair of the new organisation was hospital almoner Enid Warren.


Unionisation

In October 2011 BASW launched a trade union arm (called the Social Workers' Union). This was its second foray into this territory, as far back as 1978 it launched the British Union of Social Work, which later merged with the NUSW and is now part of the trade union
Community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...
. As a certified independent trade union it will have the legal right to accompany individual members to hearings (grievance, disciplinaries etc.) held by employers.


Publications

BASW publishes ''
The British Journal of Social Work ''The British Journal of Social Work'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on social work in the UK. It is published eight times a year by Oxford Journals for the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). The journal was first pub ...
'' and the monthly magazine ''Professional Social Work''.


References


External links

*
Catalogue of the BASW archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Catalogue of the SCOSW archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick *http://www1.socialwork.ed.ac.uk/centenary Social work organisations in the United Kingdom Organizations established in 1970 1970 establishments in the United Kingdom Social care in the United Kingdom {{socialwork-stub