The Department of Social Development says that the critical shortage of certain skills in the country has hit crisis levels and can no longer be ignored.
The Department of Social Development says that the critical shortage of social workers in the country has hit crisis levels and can no longer be ignored.
The minister said that the shortage of social workers in the country not only impacts the government’s current backlog in processing things like foster care grants, but also on the provision of social welfare services and the socio-economic development of the country in general. In August, Zulu told parliament that her department had tried to address the critical shortage of social workers in the country by setting up the Social Work Scholarship Programme.
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