The Social Welfare and Community Development Department assist the Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development policies within the framework of national policy.
The Department:
- Facilitate community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
- Assist and facilitate provision of community care services including: registration of persons with disabilities; assistance to the aged; personal. social welfare services; hospital welfare services; assistance to street children, child survival and development; and socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
- Assist to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
- Facilitate the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations and their activities in the district;
- Assist to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through: Literacy and adult education classes; Voluntary contribution and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community centres and public places of convenience or; teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.
LIST OF SOCIAL SERVICES
- CHILD RIGHTS PROTECTION & PROMOTION
- Case Management
- Day Care Centre Services
- Public Education /Sensitization
- Residential Home Centre Services
- JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION
- Probation Services
- Social Enquiry & Social Investigation Services
- Family Tribunal Court Child Panel Adjudications
- COMMUNITY CARE
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- Support For Person’s Living With Disability & Orphans And Vulnerable Children
- Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (Leap)
- Hospital Welfare Services
- Prison-Aftercare Services
- Home Visit
- Public Sensitization On Social Protection Issues
- Non Profit Organization Services
- Support To Water & Sanitation Groups