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Linda Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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South African child and Family Welfare services : changing times or business as usual?
Social Work, 2017Co-Authors: Marianne Strydom, Gary Spolander, Lambert K. Engelbrecht, Linda MartinAbstract:South African Welfare policy is influenced by global economic trends and has some indicators of neoliberal policy implementation. This paper discusses the indicators of neoliberalism before exploring the implications for child and Family Welfare services in post-apartheid South Africa, in relation to three key themes: the financing of Welfare, structures and organisations, and the managing of clients. It is argued that the influence of neoliberalism has changed the way that child and Welfare services are managed and services delivered, and that these influences should be debated within the profession and with civil society.
Philip Gillingham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Male Social Workers in Child and Family Welfare: New Directions for Research
Social work, 2006Co-Authors: Philip GillinghamAbstract:Gillingham reflects on the developments in theory and research about male social workers in child and Family Welfare. The position of male social workers in direct practice in child and Family Welfare is contentious given that men commit a majority of the physical and sexual assaults against women and children.
Bedprakas Syamroy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Family Welfare Programmes in India
India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population, 2016Co-Authors: Bedprakas SyamroyAbstract:The Family Welfare programmes of the country are funded by the Central Government under 100 % centrally sponsored scheme. The schemes which are so funded by the Union Government include the (a) Family Planning Cell at the State Secretariat, (b) State Family Welfare Bureau, (c) District Family Welfare Bureau, (d) Regional Family Planning Training Centres, (e) Establishment and Maintenance of Rural Family Planning Sub-centres, (f) Establishment and Maintenance of Urban Family Planning, (g) Establishment and Maintenance of Sterilisation Beds. The state governments implement the related Centrally Sponsored Schemes based on its yearly allocation. Normally, no component of state fund is included on these programmes, though there is no bar for any state to have its own budgeted schemes, beyond the central allocation, on these areas or to any incidental areas thereto. In a way, the schemes, as mentioned above, are the core schemes for the Family planning in India and has been in place for the last few decades. In addition to the above initiatives, the central government takes the responsibility of all issues connected with contraceptive management of the country under the national Family planning programme. The Rural Health Mission and Urban Health Mission have now become the focal points for Family Welfare intervention programmes in India.
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Family Welfare Approaches in the Five Year Plans
India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population, 2016Co-Authors: Bedprakas SyamroyAbstract:The Health Policy and the Population Policy of India overtime indicated the policy framework on Family planning in our country. The approach of the government of India on population control, however, was reflected in the documents of the five year plans well before the formal adoption of either the Health Policy or the National Population Policy. India launched the National Family Planning Programme in 1951 with the objective of reducing the birth rate to the extent necessary to stabilize the population at a level consistent with the requirement of the National economy. Later, the National Family Planning programme was renamed as the National Family Welfare Programme recognized as national priority area and has been taken up as a 100% centrally sponsored programme in the five year plans. Subsequently, however, the National Family Welfare Programme has been submerged in the National Rural Health Mission. This evolution of the Family Welfare Programme in India over the five year plans has been captured here.
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Family Welfare Structure in the Country and Issue-Based Management Support Structure
India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population, 2016Co-Authors: Bedprakas SyamroyAbstract:The moot point on organisational set-up is whether the country has put in place the right kind of organisational set-up for population control and Family planning as envisaged in serial 20A in the Concurrent List. In fact, for execution of item 20A of the Concurrent List, there is no nodal ministry or department in the country who has been empowered to deal with all related issues concerning ‘population control and Family planning. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has only been empowered to deal with ‘Family Welfare Matters’, a sub-set function of ‘population control and Family planning’ responsibility in the country. Additionally, in the context of India surpassing the huge size of population of China in the foreseeable year of 2030, the country needs to scale up a robust regime of population control to contain the runaway population. Further, the Sustainable Summit 2015 has enjoined a big responsibility to India to reach SDGs by 2030 which is only possible if sustainable population can be put in place at the first place. Moreover, the Paris Summit on climatic change also enjoins additional responsibility to control human-induced emission level at an internationally agreed level. All these belong to big-ticket reforms which call for revamping and restructuring the entire organisational set-ups of Family Welfare to the level of “Population Control and Family Planning’ for proactive, effective and outcome ensuring organisational set-up in the states of India to initiate the process for Sustainable population and enable us to reach SDGs by 2030.
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Decentralisation of Family Welfare Programmes in the Country
India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population, 2016Co-Authors: Bedprakas SyamroyAbstract:Decentralized governance is the very attribute of any modern state. It is in harmonious with the spirit and the concept of ownership and participation of the modern mind. The traditional system of governance by remote control from distant location is no substitute for a system of local governance and local participation. The local participation enables not only selection of locally relevant schemes with its bearing on living environment, it also promotes cost efficiency by subjecting openness to public scrutiny and by institutionalizing accountability to the stake holder community and other individuals. Further, involving local people may also result in investment in socially desirable services, particularly in drinking water, health care and primary education and in the process meets development deficit of the locality to a great extent. The 73rd and the 74th Amendments of the Constitution of India provides for decentralisation of Family Welfare Programmes in the country. Centralised Family planning services is seldom effective in promoting Family planning in the un-served and underserved locations in the countryside. There is great scope and dedicated space for rural and urban local bodies to share the national duty of population control and Family planning in their respective areas.
Marianne Strydom - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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South African child and Family Welfare services : changing times or business as usual?
Social Work, 2017Co-Authors: Marianne Strydom, Gary Spolander, Lambert K. Engelbrecht, Linda MartinAbstract:South African Welfare policy is influenced by global economic trends and has some indicators of neoliberal policy implementation. This paper discusses the indicators of neoliberalism before exploring the implications for child and Family Welfare services in post-apartheid South Africa, in relation to three key themes: the financing of Welfare, structures and organisations, and the managing of clients. It is argued that the influence of neoliberalism has changed the way that child and Welfare services are managed and services delivered, and that these influences should be debated within the profession and with civil society.
Anastasia J Gagebrandon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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women s role in maintaining households Family Welfare and sexual inequality in ghana
Population Studies-a Journal of Demography, 1993Co-Authors: Cynthia B Lloyd, Anastasia J GagebrandonAbstract:Over the last 30 years in Ghana, the proportion of households headed by women has increased and the composition of these households has shifted, with a growing percentage of households headed by the divorced and widowed. The paper assesses the implications of these trends for Family Welfare, and evaluates more broadly the current role of women in the economic maintenance of households with children, using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The consumption levels of household members are highest in households in which women play a primary role in the provision of cash earnings either in partnership with their husbands, or as the primary cash providers. In all types of household, women work, on average, longer hours than men, but the differences between the sexes are greatest when men and women co-reside, and least when they do not. Access to resources from an economically committed male is found to be important to the Welfare of female-headed households, which made up roughly 30 per cent of all h...
