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SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES,
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
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1. Republic Act No. 9433
a. Magna Carta for Public Social b. An Act to Regulate the Practice of c. Social Welfare Act of 1968
Workers Social Work and the Operation of
Social Work Agencies in the
Philippines and for Other Purposes
2. Republic Act No. 5416
a. Magna Carta for Public Social b. An Act to Regulate the Practice of c. Social Welfare Act of 1968
Workers Social Work and the Operation of
Social Work Agencies in the
Philippines and for Other Purposes
3. Republic Act No. 4373
a. Magna Carta for Public Social b. An Act to Regulate the Practice of c. Social Welfare Act of 1968
Workers Social Work and the Operation of
Social Work Agencies in the
Philippines and for Other Purposes
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Republic Act No. 5416
Republic Act No. 5416, also known as the Social Welfare Act of
1968, is an act providing comprehensive social services for
individuals and groups in need of assistance, and it created the
Department of Social Welfare in the Philippines.
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Republic Act No. 5416
The Act declares that it is the responsibility of the government
to provide a comprehensive program of social welfare services
designed to improve the living conditions of distressed Filipinos,
particularly those who are disadvantaged due to poverty,
youth, physical and mental disability, illness, and old age, or
who are victims of natural calamities. It also includes assistance
to members of the cultural minorities to facilitate their
integration into the body politic.
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Republic Act No. 5416
The Department of Social Welfare was created to develop and
implement a comprehensive social welfare program consisting
of preventive and remedial programs and services for
individuals, families, and communities; protective, remedial and
developmental welfare services for children and youth;
vocational rehabilitation and related services for the physically
handicapped, ex-convicts and individuals with special needs;
and training and research and special projects.
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1. 1968:
SUMMARY OF
THE EVOLUTIONS Republic Act 5416 elevated the SWA
OF THE to a department status, becoming the
DEPARTMENT Department of Social Welfare.
OF SOCIAL
WELFARE AND 2. 1976:
DEVELOPMENT
THROUGHOUT The Department of Social Welfare
HISTORY
was renamed the Department of
Social Services and Development
(DSSD) under Presidential Decree
No. 994.
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3. 1978:
SUMMARY OF
THE EVOLUTIONS The DSSD was renamed the Ministry
OF THE of Social Services and Development
DEPARTMENT (MSSD) to align with the change in
OF SOCIAL government form.
WELFARE AND
DEVELOPMENT 4. 1987:
THROUGHOUT
HISTORY The MSSD was reorganized and
renamed the Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD)
under Executive Order 123 by
President Corazon C. Aquino.
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Republic Act No. 9433
Republic Act No. 9433, also known as the "Magna Carta for Public
Social Workers," contains several key provisions. Here are some of the
important provisions of the act:
1. Declaration of Policy: The state aims to promote and improve the
social and economic well-being of public social workers, their living
and working conditions, and terms of employment. It also seeks to
develop their skills and capabilities to better serve their clients and
deliver social services and programs.
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Republic Act No. 9433
2. Coverage: The act covers all registered social workers employed in
government service.
3. Recruitment and Qualifications: The selection and appointment of
social workers should be based on the merit and fitness principle.
Priority should be given to registered social workers in filling up
social work positions in the government.
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Republic Act No. 9433
4. Merit Promotion and Career System: A Social Work Management
and Consultative Council is created to develop a uniform career and
personnel development plan for public social workers. This plan
includes provisions on merit promotion, performance evaluation, in-
service training grants, job rotation, incentive awards system, and
other policies related to the social security of social workers.
5. Normal Hours of Work: The normal hours of work for public social
workers should not exceed eight hours a day or forty hours a week.
On-call status is also defined, entitling social workers to on-call pay.
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Republic Act No. 9433
6. Leave Benefits: Public social workers are entitled to various leave
benefits, including maternity, paternity, vacation, and sick leaves.
Upon separation from service, they are entitled to all accumulated
leave credits with pay.
7. Other Benefits: Public social workers receive additional benefits
such as hazard allowance for those assigned in dangerous areas,
subsistence/transportation allowance for fieldwork, housing and
living quarters allowance, longevity pay, and clothing allowance.
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Republic Act No. 9433
8. Code of Conduct: Public social workers are guided by the Social
Work Code of Ethics, which is adopted by the Board of Social Work
and approved by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC).
9. Protection and Rights: Public social workers have the right to
protection from discrimination, interference, intimidation,
harassment, and punishment. They also have the right to join
organizations or unions, apply professional interventions, and
opportunities for continuing professional growth and development.
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Republic Act No. 9433
10. Implementing Rules and Regulations: The Social Work
Management and Consultative Council, in consultation with relevant
committees, is responsible for formulating the necessary rules and
regulations for the implementation of the Magna Carta for Public
Social Workers.
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Republic Act No. 4373
Republic Act No. 4373, "An Act to Regulate the Practice of Social
Work and the Operation of Social Work Agencies in the Philippines
and for Other Purposes," includes several key provisions. Here are
some of the important provisions of the act:
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Republic Act No. 4373
1. Definition of Terms: The act defines social work as a profession
primarily concerned with organized social service activity aimed at
facilitating and strengthening basic social relationships and mutual
adjustment between individuals and their social environment. It also
defines a "social worker" as a practitioner who possesses the skills
and qualifications set by the social work profession and is connected
with an organized social work agency.
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Republic Act No. 4373
2. Creation of the Board of Examiners for Social Workers: The act
establishes the Board of Examiners for Social Workers, composed of a
Chairman and four members appointed by the President of the
Philippines. The Board is responsible for administering the provisions
of the act, issuing, suspending, and revoking certificates of
registration for social workers, and maintaining the ethics and
standards of the social work profession.
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Republic Act No. 4373
3. Qualifications and Registration of Social Workers: The act sets the
qualifications for social workers, including being a citizen of the
Philippines, possessing a bachelor's or master's degree in social work
from a recognized institution, and completing practical training in an
established social work agency. It also requires social workers to pass
a written examination conducted by the Board and obtain a valid
certificate of registration.
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Republic Act No. 4373
4. Practice of Social Work and Appointment as Social Workers: The
act stipulates that no person shall practice or offer to practice social
work in the Philippines or be appointed as a social worker without
holding a valid certificate of registration. However, recognized social
workers or authorities on social work from other countries may be
exempted from registration under certain circumstances.
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In its broadest sense, "social
welfare covers practically
everything that men do for the
good of society.”
SOCIAL
WELFARE
Gertrude Wilson characterizes
social welfare as an organized Walter Friedlander defines it
concern of all people for all as "the organized system of
people. social services and institutions,
designed to aid individuals and
groups to attain satisfying
standards of life and health.
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COTABATO STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
The Pre-Conference Working Committee for
the XVth International Conference on Social
Welfare defines social welfare as all the
organized social arrangements which have as
SOCIAL their direct and primary objective the well-
WELFARE being of people in a social context. It includes
the broad range of policies and services which
are concerned with various aspects of
people's lives - their income, security, health,
housing, education, recreation, cultural
traditions, etc.
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Some of the Key Social Welfare Programs in the Philippines
include the following:
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps)
This is a conditional cash transfer program aimed at reducing
poverty by providing cash grants to the poorest households,
conditional on their compliance with certain health and education
requirements.
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Social Pension Program for Indigent Senior Citizens
This program provides a monthly stipend to indigent senior citizens
to support their daily subsistence and medical needs.
Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP)
Implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD), this program aims to reduce poverty and
inequality by generating employment among poor households and
by moving the extremely poor to a more sustainable level of well-
being.
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Universal Health Care (UHC) Program
The UHC program aims to ensure that all Filipinos are guaranteed
equitable access to quality and affordable health care services.
National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR):
This is a targeting system used to identify who and where the
poor are in the country, which is essential for the effective
implementation of social welfare programs.
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These social services may take the
form of services to individuals and
The collective concern of families, services to groups,
society for the well-being of its services to people with special
members, in turn, is expressed problems (the handicapped, the
mentally retarded, etc.) as well as
in the provision of concrete community services.
social services. "Social SOCIAL
services" refers to the SERVICES
programs, services and other
activities provided under
various auspices, to concretely
answer the needs and
problems of the members of
society.
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At all times everywhere, there
Why is there a are people who have needs
need for social and problems beyond their
services? own capacity for solution.
Social welfare (and therefore,
social services) has been
accepted as a legitimate
function of modern industrial
society in helping people
fulfill themselves.
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1. Public Assistance
for those in need
is financial/material aid extended by the government to
individuals/families who do not have sufficient resources to
maintain themselves. It may consist of:
1.1 aid to dependent children
1.2 aid to destitute families
1.3 institutional care for the aged, blind, handicapped and disabled
1.4 categorical aid to the needy
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2. Family Welfare
Service
·are programs and services designed to develop / improve the
problem - solving and coping capacities of families and
individual members so as to improve and strengthen the quality of
family life
2.1 Family Life Education and Counseling
This service provides members of families either individuals or as a
group, information and counseling to engaged couples to
develop their awareness of family life.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.2 Family Assistance and Counseling Services
This includes cash assistance and counseling services to families
and belonging to the lowest income bracket whose sources of
income is lost or in danger of being lost because of death, illness,
and abandonment. These services are provided to enable the
recipients to meet their basic needs, and maintain family unity while
they are establishing an income producing activity as an effort
towards the regaining of self-support.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.3 Family Planning Information and Counseling Services
There are supportive services which involve communication,
educational and counseling activities intended for couples to
enable them to decide on the number of children they can care
for; to accept and practice family planning as a way of life,
and to uphold responsible parenthood.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.4 Workshop for Income Maintenance
This service is intended to enable family heads and other adult
members of families to earn while learning, acquiring skills in
preparation for open or self-employment. Workshops are
organized for this purpose.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.5 Self-Employment Assistance Program
This is a developmental scheme which involves the provision of capital
assistance to the unemployed/underemployed family heads who are not
eligible for financial aid from other schemes of economic advancement
programs and services of regular financing institutions. The capital
assistance is intended to finance an income - producing project which
would become the source of economic support for the family. The assistance
also provides opportunities for the recipients to develop positive work
habits and attitudes, enhance their capacities to utilize labor and
income - oriented community services gain occupational and business
management skills and improve their life styles.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.6 Community Organization and Resource Development
This involves the organization of viable community groups and groups
of families for participative problem-solving, decision-making,
leadership training social action, self-help, and community
improvement projects through the maximum utilization of community
resources.
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2. Family Welfare
Service
2.7 Volunteer Resource Development
This includes all activities undertaken to identify and develop viable
channels for volunteer service for family and child welfare programs;
to develop and strengthen volunteer service; to enable volunteers to
derive full satisfaction from their work and are willing to sustain their
chosen volunteer service.
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3. Child Welfare
Services secure the protection and well-being of all children in their
physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.
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3. Child Welfare
3.1 Programs for the Development of Needy Pre-School Children
The effects of being born and growing up in poverty include a greater
chance of mental retardation, less good physical health, less adequate
socialization and preparation for entering school which impair chances
for success in school and in later life. The objective of the program for
the social development of the pre-school children is to provide
opportunities to have a proper start in life through an integrated
program of social development and nutritional feeding in the Day
Care Services Centers.
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3. Child Welfare
3.2 Day Care Services
Refers to the arrangement whereby children below 6 years old are
provided part-time substitute parental care in Day Care Centers
while their working mothers are outside of the home. They are also
provided supplemental feeding and opportunities for physical
development, creative group experiences whereby skills in
communication, human relations, and activities in daily life are
learned and developed.
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3. Child Welfare
3.3 Child Placement Service
These are arrangements whereby minors who are neglected,
abandoned, abused, orphaned, or destitute are provided substitute
home placement and parental care.
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3. Child Welfare
3.4 Community Improvement Projects
3.4.1 Population Awareness & Sex Education
3.4.2 Drug Information Program
3.4.3 Leadership Training Activities
3.4.4 Community Volunteer Service
3.4.5 Social & Cultural Activities, Sports & Recreation
3.4.6 Nutrition Education
3.4.7 Special Service for youth with special needs
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3. Child Welfare
3.5 Residential Services for:
1. The care, protection, and rehabilitation of delinquent boys age 9 to 16
years
2. Residential treatment for delinquent girls, unmarried mothers, victims of
white slavery, drug addiction, etc.
3. The training and rehabilitation of the mentally retarded and physically
handicapped such as the epileptics, post - folio victims and those affected
by cerebral palsy.
4. The care, training, and rehabilitation of the youth with behavior and
emotional problems
5. Youth awaiting court disposition of their cases (detention
centers/temporary shelters.
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3. Child Welfare
3.6 Non-Residential Services
1.Probation and After Care
-youth offenders are placed out to responsible individuals or families in the
community to help them attain emotional and social adjustment.
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3. Child Welfare
3.6 Non-Residential Services
2. Multi-Purpose Centers
- recreational and cultural activities
-economic advancement projects
- sheltered employment
-leadership seminars
3.Multi-Purpose Counseling and Referral Service
-Available to the youth with personal, social, education, training, and
employment problems.
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COTABATO STATE UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
3. Child Welfare
3.6 Non-Residential Services
2. Multi-Purpose Centers
- recreational and cultural activities
-economic advancement projects
- sheltered employment
-leadership seminars
3.Multi-Purpose Counseling and Referral Service
-Available to the youth with personal, social, education, training, and
employment problems.
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