and started by the british association of social workers together with the social workers union in alliance with a whole range of other organizations just explain that there's a union and there's a professional association pressures associations historically have been much less keen to get involved in politics sometimes even affiliated with the conservative government that might be the case and the british association of social workers created a trade union arm several years ago which is now an independent trade union associated with the professional association and we work very closely together in fact the social workers union is i believe the fastest growing union in the country the moment what have the a story verity cuts meant for your members. well what the cuts have meant for our members is we can't do the job that we want to do properly really. and that has a terrible impact on the people that we are here to serve i think it's well documented well known that susteren say affects people in poverty affects the poorest people in society more than other groups and social workers by and l