Social Services in Bangladesh

Social Services: Social services is the activities of social workers and others in promoting the health and well-being of people and in helping people become more self sufficient preventing dependency; strengthening restoring individuals, families, groups or communities to successful social functioning.

Social Problems

Social Problems: Social problems are conditions among people leading to social responses that violate some people’s values and norms and cause emotional or economic suffering. Examples of social problems include crime, social inequality, poverty, racism, drug abuse, misdistribution of limited resources.

According to American Journal of Sociology by-Lawrence K. Frank” Social problem is any difficulty or misbehavior of fairly large number of person which we wish to remove or correct”.

Social Legislation

Law:

According to Oxford Dictionary ` Law –all the rules established by authority or custom for regulating the behaviour of members of a community or country’.

Social Legislation:

According to Social Work Dictionary-Social legislation is the laws and resources allocations providing for human welfare needs, income security, education and cultural progress, civil rights, consumer protection and programs that address social problems.

Concepts of Social Welfare

Social Work:

The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving bin human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social system, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.

Social Welfare: Scope and Importance in Bangladesh

Social work is an applied science of helping people to achieve an effective level of psychosocial functioning and effecting social change to enhance the wellbeing of all people.

Social Welfare: Definition and Objectives

*Definition of Social Welfare:

Traditional: Social Welfare means some nursing depend on methods to teach the person to protect his surroundings effectively

Modern: Modern Social Welfare is a planning by which men will mitigate his problems under any social organization.