SOCIAL SERVICES AND WELFARE STATE

Reporters:
 Cristy Joy, Delloro
 Cyrelle Jane, Jumawan
 Hannah Sarmiento

Introduction:
Social services are a range of public services provided by government or private
organizations.
The welfare state is a way of governing in which the state or an established group of
social institutions provides basic economic security for its citizens. It based on the
principles of equality of opportunity, distribution of wealth and public responsibility.

Social welfare is the systems that provides assistance to individuals and families needs
by programs such as programs includes:

Health care
Food stamps
Unemployment compensation
Housing assistance
Childcare assistance
Aid for families with dependent children
Women, infants and children’s programs and others

THE NATURE OF SOCIAL SERVICE

Social service, also called welfare service or social work, any of numerous publicly or
privately provided services intended to aid disadvantaged, distressed, or vulnerable
persons or groups.
The term social service also denotes the profession engaged in rendering such
services.
The majority of personal social services are rendered on an individual basis to people
who are unable, whether temporarily or permanently, to cope with the problems of
everyday living.
Recipients include families faced with loss of income, desertion, or illness; children and
youths whose physical or moral welfare is at risk; the sick; the disabled; the frail elderly;
and the unemployed. When possible, services are also directed toward preventing
threats to personal or family independence.
Social services generally place a high value on keeping families together in their local
communities, organizing support from friends or neighbors when kinship ties are weak.
Where necessary, the services provide substitute forms of home life or residential care,
and play a key role in the care and control of juvenile delinquents and other socially
deviant groups, such as drug and alcohol abusers.
Programs and Services in the Philippines

THE PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM OR 4P’S

KALAHI CIDSS-NCDDP ( THE KAPIT BISIG LABAN SA KAHIRAPAN)
LISTAHAN
SUPPLEMENTAL FEEDING PROGRAM
DISASTER RESPONSE OPERATIONS
PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROGRAM
CENTER AND RESIDENTIAL CARE FACILITIES
ADAPTION AND FOSTAL CARE

Social services
 Education
 Food subsidies
 Health care
 Subsidized housing
5 CORE VALUES OF SOCIAL SERVICE/ SOCIAL WORKER
1. SOCIAL SERVICE – is a service to humanity
2. SOCIAL JUSTICE – another key value of social work. Many social workers
decide to enter the profession because they recognize the need to help the
unprivileged, vulnerable populations.
 3. HUMAN DIGNITY -
4. INTEGRITY – means acting honestly, responsibility and ethically at all
times.
5. COMPETENCE - means that you are continually striving to improve your
knowledge and to make meaningful contributions to the profession.

THE WELFARE STATES

A welfare state is a concept of government in which the state or a well-established
network of social institutions plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the
economic and social well-being of citizens.
It is based on the principles of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth,
and public responsibility for those unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions
for a good life. The general term may cover a variety of forms of economic and social
organization.
A welfare state is a state that is committed to providing basic economic security for its
citizens by protecting them from market risks associated with old age, unemployment,
accidents, and sickness.
A fundamental feature of the welfare state is social insurance, a provision common to
most advanced industrialized countries. Such insurance is intended to provide benefits
to persons and families during periods of greatest need.
The welfare state also usually includes public provision of basic education, health
services, and housing (in some cases at low cost or without charge).

Types of Welfare State

 Liberal
 Social democratic
 welfare states

THE STATE AND WELFARE

The state is a form of human association distinguished from other social groups by its
purpose, the establishment of order and security; its methods, the laws and their
enforcement; its territory, the area of jurisdiction or geographic boundaries; and finally
by its sovereignty.
The state consists, most broadly, of the agreement of the individuals on the means
whereby disputes are settled in the form of laws.
Welfare refers to a range of government programs that provide financial or other aid to
individuals or groups who cannot support themselves. Welfare programs are typically
funded by taxpayers and allow people to cope with financial stress during rough periods
of their lives. In most cases, people who use welfare will receive a biweekly or monthly
payment.
Social welfare systems assist individuals and families through health care, food stamps,
unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and childcare assistance.

THE SOCIAL DIVISION OF WELFARE

Social divisions’ refers to regular patterns of division in society that are associated with
membership of particular social groupings, generally in terms of advantages and
disadvantages, inequalities and differences. Systematic social divisions – such as
generation, gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity and social class – are both shaped by, and
shape, family experiences.

Social divisions are important for individual life experiences and life chances in the
context where social characteristics provide the basis for differential treatment, unequal
access to resources and judgemental evaluations. Social divisions are associated with
inequalities and a hierarchical order between categories or groups of people, theorized
through the concept of ‘stratification’.