TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
There is a perennial shortage of social workers in the child welfare field in South Africa. From 2001-2010 the local child welfare workforce shifted from dominance by social workers to including a range of service providers. However, the nature of the training, employment conditions, accreditation a...
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Stellenbosch University
2012-10-01
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| description | There is a perennial shortage of social workers in the child welfare field in South Africa. From 2001-2010 the local child welfare workforce shifted from dominance by social workers to including a range of service providers. However, the nature of the training, employment conditions, accreditation and recognition of various cadres of child welfare workers was unclear. Appropriate, coordinated and urgent responses by agencies, universities, government and accrediting bodies are needed to manage and develop this emerging workforce into a group of personnel who are able to respond effectively to the needs of vulnerable South African children and their families. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-67678922b5394715835e5121e6a6d1b22022-12-22T04:39:14ZafrStellenbosch UniversitySocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk0037-80542312-71982012-10-0148411410.15270/48-4-23TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICAJeanette Schmid0Research Fellow, Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of JohannesburgThere is a perennial shortage of social workers in the child welfare field in South Africa. From 2001-2010 the local child welfare workforce shifted from dominance by social workers to including a range of service providers. However, the nature of the training, employment conditions, accreditation and recognition of various cadres of child welfare workers was unclear. Appropriate, coordinated and urgent responses by agencies, universities, government and accrediting bodies are needed to manage and develop this emerging workforce into a group of personnel who are able to respond effectively to the needs of vulnerable South African children and their families.https://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/23 |
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| title | TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
| title_full | TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
| title_fullStr | TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
| title_full_unstemmed | TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
| title_short | TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE, COHERENT AND APPROPRIATE CHILD WELFARE WORKFORCE IN SOUTH AFRICA |
| title_sort | towards a sustainable coherent and appropriate child welfare workforce in south africa |
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