Social Policy

This assumes that lay people have more potential, ability and commitment to care to each other than is assumed by the welfare state approach

The fundamental assumption of this approach is that the state has an obligation to provide comprehensive services to respond to the problems of poverty, old age, and disability whatever their cause.

State provisions should be kept to the minimum, complementary to what informal networks in the community provide, lest undermine both their capacity and their moral resolution to “care for their own”.

This means that there are people who are left out because of development. These are the people who as a result of industrialization and mechanization of the production process, suddenly find themselves with no more jobs to support their families.

€�You cannot totally eliminate poverty, you can only minimize it.”

Give the 3 guiding theories

What is the primary goal of Social Welfare Policy?

Give the 3 objectives of Social Policy

Concrete manifestations of what policies can produce to respond to needs and problems.

Providing for Comprehensive Social Services for Individuals and Group in Need of Assistance, Creating the Depadment of Social Welfare, mandates the DSWD to set standards and policies to insure effective implementation of public and private social welfare programs and accredit institutions and organizations, public and private, engaged in social welfare activity including the licensing of child caring and child placement institutions and provide consultative services thereto.