Blogs
New research report: Raising Children: safeguarding children in the context of deportation decision-making
This month sees the publication of ‘Raising Children: safeguarding children in the context of deportation decision-making’. The research was conducted by academics at the University of Liverpool and the University of Birmingham, and involved looking at 15 case files...
Asylum hotels: comment from SWWB for the PSW magazine, November 2025
We provided comment for the Professional Social Work magazine (PSW), November 2025. This is what we had to say about people seeking asylum being housed in inadequate, private-profit-driven, hotels: At Social Workers Without Borders we speak to lots of social workers...
Social Workers Without Borders statement on the Government White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System, May 2025’: Children and their right to a family life
This Labour Government have concentrated their narrative and their action on immigration enforcement and removing people from the UK. This means carrying out enforcement action against people in our communities, our colleagues, our neighbours, our friends, our families, us.
The Government’s latest plans for the UK’s immigration system cover a multitude of reforms, but in relation to the White Paper, we are speaking out on the issues that are of most relevance to our social work practice.