Global Social Work Statement Of Ethical Principles (IASSW)

The Global Statement is available also in two languages of the EEsrASSW region: Ukranian and Slovenian. The IASSW version of the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles which was unanimously adopted at the General Assembly of IASSW on 5th July 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.  The IASSW Ethics Taskforce thanks our colleagues for their dedicated and considered …

EEsrASSW Updates: 2020 Report

Welcome to read the report on the activities of the EEsrASSW and its members in 2020: Prof. Darja Zaviršek, president EEsrASSW Dear all, It has been a difficult time, the year of 2020. Not being able to meet and to share at conferences and international teaching visits impacted the communication. In the first part of …

EEsrASSW Updates: A letter on joint memebership

President of EEsrASSW, Prof. Darja Zavišek, has written to the president of EASSW, Prof. Teresa Berttoti, to consider the issue of a joint membership. You can read the letter here: Prof. Darja Zaviršek, president EEsrASSW To the president of the EASSW, Prof. Teresa Bertotti Dear Teresa! During the Board meeting in August 2020, you, the …

Please sign: call for vaccines as a global common good

IASSW STATEMENT ON COVID-19 VACCINES AS A GLOBAL COMMON GOOD Social work educators internationally are concerned about the growing social and health inequalities that have significantly increasing in 2020, the year of the pandemic of COVID -19. Therefore, the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) Human Rights and Social Justice Committee; Research Committee …

Ethics and Social Welfare

Ethics and Social Welfare publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the ethical issues surrounding social welfare practice and policy. It has a particular focus on social work (including practice with individuals, families and small groups), social care, youth and community work and related professions. The aim of the journal is to encourage …

ECSWE 2021 – June 15-18

Innovation and Resilience: Preparedness of Social Work Education in Uncertain Times The European Association of Schools of Social Work and the Tallinn University, Estonia announce the 2021 European Conference on Social Work Education, which aims be an international forum for debating innovation, concerns, challenges and practices in social work education. More information here: https://ecswe2021.org/ Registration and payment …

4th European Conference on Domestic Violence

We are pleased to announce that the Call for abstracts for the fourth European Conference on Domestic Violence: http://ecdv-ljubljana.org/. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO THE 28th FEBRUARY 2021. This deadline will allow people to submit their abstract after the final decision about whether the conference is onsite or online has been made. We still …

Ethical challenges of social workers during Covid-19: a report

The Social Work Ethics Research Group in partnership with the IFSW Ethics Commission, announces the publication of findings of an international study of the ethical challenges faced by social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The quick turn-around research which commenced in April was designed to shed light on the challenges social workers faced and continue …

Covid-19 and Social Work: Country Reports

IASSW has published on their website a series of Country Reports, each charting a national response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on the role of social work and social welfare in this respect. http://eesrassw.fsd.uni-lj.si/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IASSW-COVID-19-and-Social-Work-Country-Reports-Final.pdf In the introduction, the editors write: This collection of Reports is the product of an international network of …

‘THIS IS NOT A STORY WHICH WOULD SHOCK!’

For those interested in violence against women, in the link a paper on #metoo campaign in postsocialist counties of EE Europe.   http://eesrassw.fsd.uni-lj.si/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Zaviršek.2020.This-is-not-a-Story-that-would-Schockmetoo-in-Slovenia.pdf The article was published in the Journal for Social Policy Studies , based at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and pioneered and lead one of the founders of  social work in …