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FYI – please pass to any colleagues
(from any discipline), students, or service users you may think will be
interested,
Kind regards,
Barbara
From: Social Work
Action Network [mailto:
Sent: 23 December 2010 08:11
Subject: Subject: SWAN Conference
2011: Flyer attached and booking now open
Dear SWAN member/colleague,
Please find attached the flyer for the Social Work Action Network’s next
annual conference in April 2011. This event will aim to reflect the growing
movement against the ConDem coalition's austerity measures which has been transformed
in recent weeks by the student rebellion against fees and education cuts. The
conference will have the key theme of building alliances in the struggle to
defend social and youth work services and challenge cuts to the welfare state
and benefits. The conference, organised in collaboration with In Defence of Youth Work,
will bring together social workers, youth and community practitioners, service
users, students and educators to share experiences of this struggle and help to
build and broaden the movement against austerity.
The flyer contains information about the conference programme and speakers and
how to book for the event. Speakers include Professor Sue White (critic of
social work targets), Bob Williams-Findlay (Disabled People Against Cuts) and
many others. Further details are available on the SWAN website:http://www.socialworkfuture.org/
We
would also like to invite people to submit proposals for seminars and workshops
at the conference which reflect their experiences of the campaigns and movement
against austerity as well as other related topics. We have attached the call
for workshops and seminars which includes details of how to submit your
proposal. We are particularly keen to encourage presentations from those in
practice, people who use services, carers and students. Please feel free to
circulate both these documents as widely as possible.
The
next meeting of West Midlands SWAN will take place on Tuesday 11th January
at 630pm seating area outside Room 714, 7th
We
hope you have an enjoyable festive break.
In solidarity,
Social Work Action Network