THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES: PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL WORKERS AT NGOs
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https://doi.org/10.15270/46-2-173Abstract
According to the White Paper for Social Welfare (1997), one of the goals of child and familywelfare services in social work is to maintain and strengthen the functioning of high-risk
families in order to enhance their physical, social and emotional development. Family
preservation is a strategy to empower families to enhance the optimal development of children
and to prevent the statutory removal of children from their families. To avoid this removal the
focus of social workers, when rendering family preservation services, must first be on
prevention services, then on early intervention services and last on statutory services in order to
implement a developmental social service policy (Department of Social Development, 2006:20,
Ministry for Welfare and Population Development, 1997:62).
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