Aotearoa New Zealand Association for Social Workers
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Yesterday (Sunday 28 February 2021), Carmel Sepuloni, Minister of Social Development and Employment announced that benefits will increase by 3.1 percent as of April 1, 2021. These increases are in line with the rise in average wage. This follows an earlier announcement (made on February 16, 2021) that those receiving benefit support will be able to earn more through work […]
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The ANZASW Quality and Innovation Awards have been established following the 2014 Year of celebrating 50 years of ANZASW to formally recognise excellence in social work practice. Categories of Awards include exemplary and or innovative social work showcasing one or more of the following: Human Rights: Social Work practice demonstrating how an identified human rights issue or issues has/have [...] » Read more
Aotearoa NZ Social Workers’ Day is on Wednesday 23rd September 2020. Aotearoa Social Workers’ Day is an annual event celebrating social workers and the work they do. This is a great opportunity for Social Workers to get together, network & enjoy collegial support. It can be as simple as organising a date, time & a place to meet e.g. café for […]
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2020 ANZASW AGM & CPD Day’s Theme was Ethics in Social Work. Sarah Banks, (Professor of Applied Social Sciences,UK) presented on practising ethically in challenging times, Ange Watson presented on Kaimahi experiences of the collision of their personal, professional and cultural worlds and the values and ethical challenges within this experience and Liz Beddoe & Neil Ballantyne presented on Enhancing readiness to practise – the Professional Capabilities Framework
» Read moreStatement from Rose Henderson, long-standing ANZASW member and Asia-Pacific Region President for the International Federation of Social Workers on World Social Work Day 2019
» Read moreHāpaitia te Oranga Tangata Safe & Effective Justice are working on long term solutions to improve community safety and the way justice works and we want to listen to everyone involved. This is just the beginning and it will take time, but we have to make a start as the system isn’t working. https://safeandeffectivejustice.govt.nz/research/
» Read moreThe Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) mourns the loss of Professor Ian Shirley, who passed away at the weekend. Professor Shirley will be remembered as a man of brilliance and integrity, who strove throughout his long career to advance the cause of social justice in this country, contributing so much to the development of social policy, both […]
» Read moreThe Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) welcomes Living Wage week and supports the Living Wage campaign. Our film outlines our position and features member Luis Arevalo and ANZASW Communications and Advocacy Coordinator Emanuel Stoakes
» Read moreThe Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) welcomes the recent release of the Law Commission’s report on Abortion Law reform.
The Association is pleased that the restrictive, decades-old laws that regulate abortion look set to be updated. We are encouraged by the fact that all the options for reform proposed in the report call for the practice to be decriminalised and treated instead as a matter of health, in keeping with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice’s past statements on the issue.
» Read moreThis piece was written by ANZASW member Miriama Scott The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) recognises the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as a time for reflection. As we reflect on this day, which occurred earlier this month, we consider the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), the IFSW Global Definition […]
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