A group of Social Work students from the University of Dundee will be attending the SWAN (Social Work Action Network) conference in London on the 4th of July.

The students have been given the opportunity to travel to Calais and Dunkirk to witness first hand the living conditions of people residing within these camps.

This group of students will form part of a Scottish delegation who will be responsible for compiling a report which will be delivered to the UK government.

With only a short time to raise funds for this trip, the students hope to arrange a series of fundraising events over the coming weeks. We would appreciate any donations however small to help us with our cause.

We will be delivering a talk on our findings as part of National Refugee Week which takes place from 20-26 JUNE 2016.

Thank you for your support!

"The Social Work Action Network (SWAN) is a radical, campaigning organisation of social work and social care practitioners, students, service users, carers and academics, united by our concern that social work practice is being undermined by managerialism and marketisation, by the stigmatisation of service users and by welfare cuts and restrictions. While recognizing that social work is one of the mechanisms through which the State controls the behaviours of poor families, we believe nevertheless that social work is a valuable activity which can help people address the problems and difficulties in their lives. Many of these difficulties are rooted in the inequalities and oppressions of the modern world and good social work necessarily involves confronting the structural and public causes of so many private ills."