- Title
- Progress of the social service professions in South Africa's developmental social welfare system: Social work, and child and youth care work
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Lombard, Antoinette
- Relation
- International Journal of Social Welfare Vol. 32, Issue 4, p. 423-561
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12562
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- This paper examines the progress of the social service professions delivering developmental social welfare in South Africa, a subject we have followed closely over the last 20 years. Being policy-driven, developmental social welfare stemmed from expert social analyses that resulted in technically oriented solutions, including the broadening of social service professions. Twenty years on, it is hard to see developmental social welfare, as envisaged in government policy, in action, since the practice reality does not differ drastically from the prior apartheid system with the government's heavy reliance on social security as a poverty-alleviation measure. The expanded social security budget has led to underfunded services and a crisis for social service professionals. This paper focuses on the regulated professions of social workers, and child and youth care workers. Our examination of critical issues for these occupational groups revealed that South Africa still has a long way to go in building a strong social service workforce.
- Subject
- child and youth care; developmental social welfare; social and economic justice; social welfare policy; social work; South Africa; workforce issues in human services
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1493668
- Identifier
- uon:53616
- Identifier
- ISSN:1369-6866
- Rights
- © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Social Welfare published by Akademikerfröbundet SSR (ASSR) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Language
- eng
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