BASW Cymru

21/03/2026

21/03/2026

🙏 Thank you to Ian Byrne MP for tabling an early day motion at Westminster this week to recognise the important role of social workers across the UK and urge his colleagues to back our calls to improve working conditions in the profession.

While encouraging to see MPs already adding their support, we need to keep applying pressure on the powers that be if we are to affect the change that social workers desperately need to see.

Has your MP signed the motion yet? Contact them to find out!

Learn more 🔗 https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65430

21/03/2026

A huge congratulations to our wonderful Senior Supervising Social Worker Leigh! ✨

She has been recognised by The British Association of Social Workers as one of their Amazing Social Workers 2026 and we couldn’t agree with them more!

Our foster carer Becky shared some thoughts about her relationship with Leigh:

“Leigh has been a breath of fresh air as our Supervising Social Worker. She appears to be very attune to our needs, household demands, medical pressures of constant appointments and specialists that need to be prioritised for each child, and will jump on anything I mention that may need to be explored for a particular child or need.

She can read me like a book. She knows that the children in my care are my world and I always want the best for them, but I will often put their needs before my own (as I believe all parents do/should do). Leigh recognises if I’m emotionally drained, and when I’m terrified from the impact of watching my little girl go under another anaesthetic for surgery or battle with myself that I can’t ‘fix’ something for one of my girls to make their lives richer.

Leigh can give me advice and guidance, and I truly respect it as I know she really understands our family dynamic and how much we love our ‘littles’, and only wants the best for us as a whole.”

Leigh is a truly inspirational person who cares, and understands the foster families she works with.
Thank you Leigh. 💜

17/03/2026

There is still time to join us for tomorrow's online Practice Workshop (18/3/2026) looking at Communications and Outcomes in a Complex World of Social Work in Wales. The session will run from 12:00 - 13:30 and will be presented by Nicola Howard. Click here to find out more about the session and to book your place: https://new.basw.co.uk/events/basw-cymru-practice-workshop-communication-and-outcomes-complex-world-social-work-wales

The session is free for BASW Members and only £10 + VAT for non-members.

01/03/2026

01/03/2026

And that’s a wrap on final day of Plaid Cymru Spring Conference. Really great conversations with delegates as well as sitting and prospective MS regarding the importance of focusing on social justice and the crucial role social work has. Good to see the recognition of the impact of poverty on individuals, families and communities across speakers’ contributions, which is a key part of BASW’s manifesto!

27/02/2026

Good first day meeting sitting and prospective MS, and delegates today, including a few past and present social workers and BASW members to talk about our work. Great discussions and engagement. Rhun Ap Iorwerth spent a while talking to us about the importance of social work and the need to support social workers and communities.

27/02/2026

Today and tomorrow we are at the Plaid Cymru Spring Conference representing social workers and services in Wales. Top of our agenda is to promote our manifesto asks including better pay and working conditions for social workers and better investment in communities across Wales recognising the crucial importance of social work.

19/12/2025

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