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    1. Social welfare agencies can be public, private, or semi-governmental organizations that are established to meet social needs. Public agencies are created by laws and regulations while private agencies form voluntarily in response to community needs. 2. The key differences between public and private social welfare agencies are their basis of establishment, sources of funding, organizational structure, and flexibility. Public agencies receive funding from taxes and have bureaucratic structures, while private agencies rely on donations and fees and are more flexible. 3. Social welfare agencies function both as administrative bureaucracies, following standardized procedures, and as social systems influenced by external political, economic, social and professional pressures.

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    1. Social welfare agencies can be public, private, or semi-governmental organizations that are established to meet social needs. Public agencies are created by laws and regulations while private agencies form voluntarily in response to community needs. 2. The key differences between public and private social welfare agencies are their basis of establishment, sources of funding, organizational structure, and flexibility. Public agencies receive funding from taxes and have bureaucratic structures, while private agencies rely on donations and fees and are more flexible. 3. Social welfare agencies function both as administrative bureaucracies, following standardized procedures, and as social systems influenced by external political, economic, social and professional pressures.

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    1. Social welfare agencies can be public, private, or semi-governmental organizations that are established to meet social needs. Public agencies are created by laws and regulations while private agencies form voluntarily in response to community needs. 2. The key differences between public and private social welfare agencies are their basis of establishment, sources of funding, organizational structure, and flexibility. Public agencies receive funding from taxes and have bureaucratic structures, while private agencies rely on donations and fees and are more flexible. 3. Social welfare agencies function both as administrative bureaucracies, following standardized procedures, and as social systems influenced by external political, economic, social and professional pressures.

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    LESSON 3

    SOCIAL WELFARE
    AND
    DEVELOPMENT
    AGENCY
    It is a structured framework within which the administrative tasks are
    carried out. It is an instrument of society, established through government
    initiative or through voluntary efforts to achieve a social goal.

    Peter Drucker outlines how a social welfare agency in its simplest form
    comes into being when “several people see an unmet need, want to meet that
    need, get community permission to meet that need, and accept legal
    responsibility for seeing that the resources secured, or made available, are used
    for the specific purpose for which they were given rather than for some other
    purpose
    AGENCIES
    Traditionally, the types of social welfare agencies include:

    1. Governmental or public agencies – organization supported by public


    funds or taxes.
    2. Private or voluntary agencies – organizations supported by private
    contributions or donations or income from services. These are
    popularly referred to as non-governmental organizations (NGO’s)
    3. Semi-government or quasi-governmental organizations –
    organizations that receive some form of subsidy, either in cash or
    kind, from the government.
    AGENCIES

    The characteristics of public agencies are:

    1. They are created through any of these: constitutional mandate, legislative act,
    executive order, presidential decree, or letter of instruction.
    2. Their existence, functions, and programs are created by law or executive order,
    hence may only be changed or modified by law or executive order.
    3. Their organizational structure is bureaucratic and less flexible than private
    agencies
    4. They must conform with government procedures, especially the accounting
    and auditing of funds, property and other resources.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC AGENCIES
    Private agencies are characterized by the following:

    1. They are organized as a form of response of private organizations to


    meet people’s needs in the community.
    2. They may be national chapters of international organizations such as the
    Red Cross, Young Man Catholic Association (YMCA), World Vision,
    and others.
    3. They may have been established by sectarian or non-sectarian
    organizations.
    4. They are governed by their own charters, constitution and by-laws, and
    by a governing board.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC AGENCIES

    5. Their organizational structures do not generally follow a


    bureaucratic pattern, and, therefore, are more flexible in their
    policies and programs that enable them to readily respond to
    people and community needs.
    6. Private agencies can pioneer and initiate demonstration projects
    which may subsequently be turned over to the government. The
    latter can adopt the program on a larger scale with more
    available resources and organizational capacity.
    AGENCIES
      SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES (NON-PROFITS)
      Government Private
    Basis of Establishment Constitutional mandate & other laws of the land, Voluntary response to a social need; faith-based or
    social need humanitarian motivation

    Purpose Basic social services Charity; social services; advocacy

    Clientele All citizen in a given territory; or special sectors Specific area or sectors (usually the poor or people with
    special needs)

    Leadership & Management Elective, legislative or appointive officials; hired Founders/members/elective BOT/hired management & staff if
    management & staff any

    Sources of Funds Taxes and other incomes Member’s fees, donation, grants and other incomes such as
    surplus (profit)

    Structure Bureaucratic & less flexible; conform to government Less bureaucratic & more flexible
    procedures

    Issues and Concerns Inefficiency, transparency & corruption Inefficiency & ineffectiveness due to smallness
    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOCIAL WELFARE
    AGENCIES

    The social welfare agency may be a small organization with a few


    people involved in the program or a complex system involving a
    great number of people. For a large social welfare agency, the
    personnel would include administrators at various levels,
    professionals, members of different related professions, clerical,
    technical, and manual staff, as well as volunteers and
    paraprofessionals.
    The Department of Social Welfare and Development is a good case illustration of
    a large public social welfare agency. In addition to being a national social welfare
    agency, it has deployed social work staff in different countries where there are
    Filipino overseas workers through the International Social Welfare Services for
    Filipino Nationals (ISWSFN). In collaboration with the Department of Foreign
    Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the
    Filipino migrant workers in crisis situation and in need of special protection are
    provided proper assistance by virtue of Republic Act (R.A) 8042 of the Migrant
    Worker and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995. Smaller in scale and responsibility are
    the local government social welfare offices at the provincial and municipal city
    levels which are established under the authority of the Local Government Code
    (LGC). Private agencies exist at the local level to meet the needs of residents. An
    example of a small agency is the Philippine Band of Mercy.
    ATURE OF SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
    Rosemary C. Sarri and Robert D. VInter suggest that social welfare agency
    “must be viewed both as administrative bureaucracies and as social
    systems.” They are administrative bureaucracies in that they are established
    to attain specific goals, and their internal structures, technologies, and
    procedures are designed to implement these goals. An example is the
    Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of agencies meant to guide agency
    workers in the performance of their tasks to serve particular client groups in
    accordance with agency goals. They are social systems that adoptively
    respond to external and internal pressures, and they generate informal
    patterns that may both facilitate and hamper goal attainment.
    Being social systems, social agencies are subject to pressures from outside and
    within the organization. For instance, political factors interfere with normal
    operations of the public agencies as in the appointment of managers and their
    staff. Socio-cultural factors such as utang na loob (debt of gratitude) and
    pakikisama (getting along with…) oftentimes characterize the informal
    relationships that may contravene the formal tenets of the organization. The
    economic situation also affects funding and support to social agencies that may
    cause the cutting down and/ or elimination of existing programs. The
    professional culture influences social agencies by establishing standards of
    practice which are mandated through licensure requirements established by law.
    R.A 4373 has made a difference in the standards of professional staffing of both
    public and private agencies.
    OTHER TYPES OF SOCIAL AGENCIES

    Other types of social agencies may be created by


    foundations set up by individuals, business corporations,
    religious organizations, or even universities. An example
    is the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a
    corporate-led non-profit social development foundation
    in the Philippines that is committed to poverty alleviation
    and people development.
    REFERENCES:
    • Cordero, E.A, Gutierrez, C.L & Pangalangan, E.A (2013).
    Administration and Supervision in Social Work. Rency’s
    Printing Press
    • U.P Social Work Board Review Notes
     

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