| | | | Human Welfare Studies and Services is the study of social intervention designed to help persons, individually and collectively, maximise their social and economic well-being. Skills include: assessing the welfare requirements of individuals and groups, assisting individuals, groups and communities in relation to family and child welfare, probation and parole, housing, health and rehabilitation, assisting individuals, groups and communities to utilise their own resources to improve their well-being, mediating between, and counselling individuals, groups, and communities, planning, organising and implementing programmes for the care of young children, communicating with young children, parents and other professionals. The main purpose of this field of study is to develop an understanding of the social, political and economic climate in which social policy is developed, administered and implemented, the social needs of individuals, groups and communities within society, the resources available to meet these needs, and the social influences that affect the behaviour and social functioning of people. It also involves developing an ability to plan and deliver welfare programmes, and organise resources to meet individual and community needs.
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