By Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto
During this singular assortment, indigenous specialists describe the social welfare structures of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island countries and locales. enormously understudied, those lands supply key perception into the successes and screw ups of Western and local ways to social paintings, suggesting new instructions for perform and examine in either neighborhood and international contexts.
Combining foreign reports wisdom, participants light up the position of historical past and tradition in shaping the social welfare platforms of Cambodia, China, Hong Kong (SAR, China), Indonesia, Malaysia, the Micronesian zone (including the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam [Unincorporated Territory, U.S.A.], Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands [Commonwealth, U.S.A.], and Palau), Samoa and American Samoa (Unincorporated Territory, U.S.A.), South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The members hyperlink the values and concerns that predicament populaces so much to the improvement of social paintings perform, coverage, and examine. Sharlene B. C. L. Furuto then conducts a comparative research of the essays together with their information and social provider courses, highlighting the similarities and transformations among the evolution of social welfare in those countries and locales. She contrasts their indigenous ways, the responses of governments and NGOs to social matters, the supply of social paintings schooling, in addition to API versions, paradigms, and templates, and the general prestige of the social paintings occupation. Furuto additionally provides a bankruptcy evaluating the specified social welfare platforms of Samoa and American Samoa. the single quantity to concentration solely on social welfare in East Asia and the Pacific, this anthology holds substantial price for practitioners and researchers longing for worldwide views.
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In addition, social workers are playing more important roles in natural disaster relief and crisis intervention work. There is great anticipation that indigenous practice and training approaches suitable for the social context of China will develop more quickly. According to a circular released by eighteen central governmental departments in November 2011, the government has pledged to ensure that social workers will have more professional training and education opportunities. It intends to adopt payment guidelines and other policies to enable local government departments to purchase the services of charitable and nonprofit organizations, thus encouraging the employment of more social workers.
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This system was immediately put into practice in state, joint state-private, private, and cooperative enterprises or work organizations that employed more than one hundred workers. When an enterprise changed ownership, the security system went into effect in all state and joint state-private enterprises. Similar systems were also gradually established for collectively owned enterprises in urban districts. indb 20 12/21/12 4:18 PM 21 China’s Changing Social Welfare social security system played an important role in rehabilitating and developing the national economy as well as guaranteeing the essential needs of the people.
