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The MASW Bursary Campaign 2020

@maswbc2020

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.

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This is great news for nurses, but serves to widen the gap even further between health and social care when social work students are surviving on a negative income #socialwork gov.uk/government/new…

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Today we met with Julie Morgan MS & colleagues, along with BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, our Social Work students and Cardiff University to discuss our campaign for parity of funding for social work postgrads. Welsh Government have committed to supporting our cause #equality #watchthisspace

Today we met with <a href="/JulieMorganLAB/">Julie Morgan MS</a>  &amp; colleagues, along with <a href="/BASW_Cymru/">BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a>, our Social Work students and <a href="/cardiffuni/">Cardiff University</a> to discuss our campaign for parity of funding for social work postgrads. <a href="/WelshGovernment/">Welsh Government</a> have committed to supporting our cause #equality #watchthisspace
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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

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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

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Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 hustings, Angela Burns MBE from Welsh Conservatives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 states “there should be a complete parity of esteem between health and social care under our recruit, retain and retrain policy”

Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the <a href="/BASW_Cymru/">BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a> hustings, <a href="/AngelaJBurns/">Angela Burns MBE</a> from <a href="/WelshConserv/">Welsh Conservatives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a> states “there should be a complete parity of esteem between health and social care under our recruit, retain and retrain policy”
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Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 hustings, David Rees MS from Welsh Labour 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 <a href="/BASW_Cymru/">BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a> hustings, <a href="/DavidReesMS/">David Rees MS</a> from <a href="/WelshLabour/">Welsh Labour</a> states “we should be equally supporting health &amp; social care and the bursary should be equivalent”
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Our plea for parity of funding for #socialwork postgrad students at the BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 hustings, Rhun ap Iorwerth 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 <a href="/BASW_Cymru/">BASW Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a> hustings, <a href="/RhunapIorwerth/">Rhun ap Iorwerth</a> from <a href="/Plaid_Cymru/">Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿</a> states “as a matter of principle, social work students shouldn’t be paying tuition fees, social work students should ideally be apprenticeship based”
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The MASW bursary campaign 2020: An example of grassroots social work activism #socialwork sw2020covid19.group.shef.ac.uk/2021/04/28/the…

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Government Health and Social Care petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/2448…

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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 😊

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 😊
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Are you a social work student or newly qualified social worker in Wales? Please join us next wk as we are joined by Siobhan Maclean at our monthly CoP meeting, free to register & valuable learning focusing on the importance of reflection! basw.co.uk/events/basw-cy…

Are you a social work student or newly qualified social worker in Wales? Please join us next wk as we are joined by <a href="/SiobhanMaclean/">Siobhan Maclean</a> at our monthly CoP meeting, free to register &amp; valuable learning focusing on the importance of reflection! basw.co.uk/events/basw-cy…
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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 Petitions Committee