The Department of Social Development and Special Programmes will on 14 March 2011 hold a Social Auxiliary Workers graduation and a Social Work dialogue with the MEC on the same day and culminate with the annual Social Work Day on 15 March 2010.
Date: 14 March 2011
Event: Social Auxiliary Workers Graduation
Venue:Osner Hotel, East London
Time: 10h00
Date: 14 March 2011
Event: Social Work Dialogue with theMEC
Venue: Osner Hotel, East London
Time: 14h00
Date: 15 March 2011
Event: World Social Work Day
Venue: Regent Hotel, East London
Time:18h00
The graduation of 300 social auxiliary workers is a highlight because the country as a whole is experiencing a shortage of social workers and social auxiliary workers .The Department of Social Development and Special Programmes, as an arm of government with a responsibility of ensuring that services are rendered by a capable cadre that upholds social work ethics, the graduation is a big step towards improving the lives of our people.
The graduates will now go to communities in need of services and improve service delivery. The objective of the graduation is to have an in-depth discussion that will lead to understanding the importance of the involvement of the Social Auxiliary Workers in the delivery of social welfare service and improving working relations between Social Auxiliary Workers and the Social Workers.
The social work profession promotes social change, and the empowerment and liberation of people and it helps also nations to respond to economic and social changes that disproportionately affect vulnerable people and communities. The profession has developed over the years in South Africa from the decade of the 1st school of Social Work called The Jan Hofmeyer School of Social Work in Johannesburg.
World Social Work Day is commemorated worldwide on the third Tuesday each year to give Social Workers an opportunity to celebrate the contribution towards improving the lives of the people. This day, the Department will celebrate achievements and crucial contribution of the social work profession.
On World Social Work Day, the Department will also:
- give recognition and celebrate the challenging work of Social Workers and to highlight the good work that social workers undertake in service delivery
- develop a collective voice and initiate a process of elaborating and setting a common agenda that can unite the profession
- develop mechanisms for the implementation and monitoring of common global actions
- restore the mandate and core values of social work profession
The theme for World Social Work Day is “Social Work Voices Responding to the Global Crisis: Together we Develop the Agenda”
For more information, please contact:
Mr G Maswana
Cell: 082 821 7410
Source: Eastern Cape Social Development
