Archive for April 2025

BASW England worked with Sally Jameson MP to submit a series of parliamentary questions

Selangor Women Development and Social Welfare Committee chairman Anfaal Saari said the state Social Welfare Department was also working to trace the next of kin of the 12 boys and six girls.

Relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador attend a vigil in front of the El Salvadoran embassy in Caracas

Earlier in April, doctors at the National Institutes of Health made a promising step in the fight against cancer, announcing an immunotherapy treatment was able to shrink gastrointestinal tumors for about a quarter of patients. But NIH staffing shortages, layoffs and cuts are threatening to delay the rollout of this promising development.

This past week, the University of Florida was on the brink of hiring a new dean of its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Then officials suddenly called off the search under pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration, which alleged that the candidates were not in alignment with the state’s policies opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

As Chair of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW UK), I’ve had the privilege of representing our profession at a number of recent events focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in social care and social work. What’s clear from these events is that AI is no longer a distant concept—it’s here, and it’s reshaping how we think about care, ethics, rights, and the role of social work itself.