SWAN (Cork) aims to fight service cut-backs

A NEW, broad pressure group has been formed in Cork to campaign against the destruction of services in the social caring professions within communities and elsewhere.

We are called Swan: The Social Work Action Network. We all work in social services in one area or another. We draw our membership from social workers, social care workers, special needs assistants, home helps, home carers, service users, community workers, and others.

Swan has been in existence in Britain for about eight years and has recently formed in Dublin and Galway.