Updated on 17th June 2021

Wayne Reid is a Professional Officer, Social Worker and Anti-Racism Visionary at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW).  Wayne qualified as a Social Worker in 2010, but the entirety of his frontline social care experience spans over 20 years.  He has worked for private fostering agencies; the Probation Service; a youth offending team; a community mental health service; a child protection service and with care leavers.  Wayne’s diverse role at BASW England involves supporting national groups on: mental health, criminal justice, professional development and students and newly qualified social workers (NQSW’s).  Wayne’s work with students and NQSW’s and social work practitioners is extensive.  This has involved guest speaking, facilitating training; leading national campaigns and organising national conferences.

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In her PhD dissertation (2017) Frances Hatherley discussed three working class artists who had risen to prominence in the art world but whose core class content had never been discussed by the critics. She makes “three case studies, each addressing aspects of working-class femininity: Jo Spence’s Class-Shame series, the photographs collected in Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh, and Carol Morley’s film The Alcohol Years.” Rather than simple pointing to the absence of analysis Hatherley creates an idea of an Anti-Pygmalion Aesthetics with which to better understand the class aspects of the work of these artists. This doctoral thesis is dynamite in the foundations of the classist art establishment.

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The level of inaction from many within the profession’s establishment is both deafening and revealing. To quote US novelist and activist James Baldwin: “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you [don’t] do.”

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