Student Social Workers campaign to remove the current barriers of entrty into the profession and achieve parity of esteem with our health colleagues in Wales.
The lack of parity of esteem between Social & Health Care is epitomised by the differential treatment among Welsh students. Sign our petition to help us support access to Social Work for Masters students in Wales #equality@BASW_Cymru@WGHealthandCare https://t.co/dd0CdblbKH
@Abyd56 BASW Cymru have in touch.
We been asked to put together an executive summary for the committee and we'll have an opportunity to dicuss it too.
Thanks Abyd :-)
A Big Thank You to everyone who supported our petition to remove the hardships placed on student social workers, and calling for greater parity of esteem between health and social care!
The petition is now under consideration with the Senedd Petitions Committee @SeneddPetitions
Are you a social work student or newly qualified social worker in Wales? Please join us next wk as we are joined by @SiobhanMaclean at our monthly CoP meeting, free to register & valuable learning focusing on the importance of reflection! https://t.co/Dy7A7VB4Ip
Response from Welsh Government.
Great to hear WG recognise:
1)Bursary has not kept upto date
2)Sector may benefit from a wider funding review
Committed to tackling concerns, aiming for the 22/23 cohort.
Looking forward to further collaboration,thank you to all our supporters 😊
The lack of parity of esteem between Social & Health Care is epitomised by the differential treatment among Welsh students. Sign our petition to help us support access to Social Work for Masters students in Wales #equality@BASW_Cymru@WGHealthandCare https://t.co/dd0CdblbKH
Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the @BASW_Cymru hustings, @RhunapIorwerth from @Plaid_Cymru states “as a matter of principle, social work students shouldn’t be paying tuition fees, social work students should ideally be apprenticeship based”
Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the @BASW_Cymru hustings, @DavidReesMS from @WelshLabour states “we should be equally supporting health & social care and the bursary should be equivalent”
Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the @BASW_Cymru hustings, @AngelaJBurns from @WelshConserv states “there should be a complete parity of esteem between health and social care under our recruit, retain and retrain policy”
Tonight we’ll be promoting our campaign at the @BASW_Cymru ‘Valuing Social Care, Valuing People’ Hustings ahead of the Senedd election. We look forward to sharing our passion for #equality for #socialworkpostgrads, generating support to make #socialwork an accessible career
Looking forward to putting our question across at the Hustings this evening, to ask for #socialwork postgraduate funding to be recognised as needing parity with our health colleagues! #equality