Personal Statement for Social Work in South Africa

This personal statement discusses the challenges and experiences of a social worker in South Africa, focusing on education and disabilities. It emphasizes the need for strong legislation and funding to provide inclusive education and support for children with disabilities.

Social Work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal statement for social work.........................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Social work defines discipline of academic and profession based on practices which are
concerns itself along with families, communities or society, groups and individuals as a whole in
effective efforts to reach or basic needs or desires and also increase social functioning, collective
responsibility, self determination and entire well being. Social functioning refers as ability of
person to perform their roles related to social in their immediate, own self, community at large
and social environment. Work related to social applies social science like psychology, public
health, law or economics, community development, political science and sociology to engage
conduct assessment, clients and interventions develop to resolve personal or social issues and get
about changes in social or society (Germain and Knight, 2021). Practices of social work divided
in micro work, that are consider performing activities directly with small groups, individuals and
macro work. Which are involve with society or community and changes in fostering on higher
scale with the help of social policies. Below report based on a case study on south Africa and
eduction which, based on this report includes personal statement.
MAIN BODY
Personal statement for social work
As per case study, in south Africa there are lots of major challenges related to eduction,
health, disabilities and many more are available and this affect on society in negative manner.
Her brother was a diagnosed with disabilities in learning and when he was turned into 5 years
due to less support from health professionals and local authority. He placed in poorly organized
special services institute or centre which was located away form his community and family or
also lack of trained employees. There is no strong legislation in south Africa to provide inclusive
education for different children along with their disabilities. There was a inequalities among
children with disabilities, mostly in children with autism spectrum illness experience from
guardians, teachers and support staff are abuse, violence, neglect and punishment of corporal.
She had a experience working with various social and health care settings and also had best
opportunity to work with person with learning and disabilities related to physical or mental
health (Harris and White, 2018). When she used to support services people with their regular
needs such as medication administration, personal care, making food of their recording in regular
logs and charts of weight. She had done B.TEC with FIVE levels in health and social care
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management. Now days she doing job as a services manager which is involve in assessment
conducting for services people to make individual support plans in assist with care managers,
social workers and families. This consider making and daily reviewing risk assessment in
conformity with changes to their assistance needs and referrals writing to health professional at
the time of requirements. She work in partnership with various health professional in effectual
manner such as social workers, GP's, community nurses, psychiatrist consultants and many other
professionals related to health. It enables her to get and pass actual information to top managers
and promote regular quality support fro users in service and group work. She also needed to
report about service person's events to the duty social worker, such as accident or incidents
records, abuse, illness which are serious and follow up of changes in medication (Horner, 2018).
She had experience related to working as a key employee with service user who had caused of
schizophrenia by his past high rate of alcohol dependency. She needed advocate and to support
for Mr. XYZ when there was required to take responsibility of his ward rounds at mental health
facility in community. She also promote his good confidence and take surety that he was got
seriously by professional in health related. Intervention of therapeutic of favourable reinforces
was effectual for him. This consider employees supporting him along with needs based on
emotional factor via reassurance effectual listening to reduce anxiety, undue stress and
promoting well-being on the basis of emotions. She have better understanding of essential to be
unprejudiced or treat people those are vulnerable with promote and respect. She is very
organised and perform their duties and responsibilities in best manner under pressure or which
can simply adapt to conditions changes. She motivated highly or individual hard-working and
prepared to learn. She is caring, empathetic, compassionate and regularly practices for good
communication skills. Such as emails, Microsoft office, listening or speaking, writing reports and
virtual meetings. She strongly believe in qualities or best skills will assist her throughout her
studies in social work (Mogorosi, 2018). She wants to be part of university and she is very hard-
working or had experience in best fields. She wants to continue to work for society along with
studies. Her hobbies are watching documentaries with family, reading about society care
updates.
In south Africa government should make a strict legislation for eduction and children's
health for better development and they no need to go away from their community or family
(Thompson, 2020). There are many social workers, campaigns and projects who doing well in
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this work but they don't have enough funds to perform social activities to full fill society needs
and desires. Government need to focus on fund and need to pass a individual bill for social
workers to provide best facilities to children in eduction sector and their health.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded the above report, social work is essential for more development in
community and society. Through this people get more knowledge and awareness about what is
going in their surrounding. Above statement based on south Africa and their eduction system
with disabilities. Government need a strong legislation with effective policies and rules to
provide best eduction to children and society no need to go away from families and community
for eduction. There are lots of social workers are work on issues but they don't have funds to
implementation of plans, government require to pass a separate bill for social workers so they get
funds to perform their social activities. In above she wants to take administration in good
university for better eduction and she has experience in social work, she worked with lots of
campaigns or projects and wants to continue with their studies.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Germain, C.B. and Knight, C., 2021. The life model of social work practice: Advances in theory
and practice. Columbia University Press.
Harris, J. and White, V., 2018. A dictionary of social work and social care. Oxford University
Press.
Horner, N., 2018. What is social work?: Contexts and perspectives. Learning Matters.
Mogorosi, L.D., 2018. Social work and indigenisation: A South African perspective. Southern
African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, 30(1), pp.1-18.
Thompson, N., 2020. Understanding social work: Preparing for practice. Red Globe Press.
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