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• Policy


  A course or principle of action adopted or proposed by a government, party, business, or individual
• Policy


  • A set of guiding principles
  • A guide to action (strategy, programs, projects)
  • Principles, guidelines, or procedures that serve the purpose of maximizing uniformity in decision making
• Levels of policy


  • Individual
  • Family
  • Organizational
  • Government
• Individual policy


  Policies based on values and interests that guide how individuals act in specific circumstances
• Family policy


  Policies which operate at the family level
• Organizational policy


  Policies for the proper functioning of businesses, including personal and operational policies
• Government policy


  Also known as public policy, policies that guide decisions and actions relating to society as a whole, developed by central and local governments
• Public policy


  What public officials within government, and by extension the citizens they represent, choose to do or not do about public problems
• Social policy


  The policies which governments use for welfare and social protection, aimed at removing or alleviating social problems and improving the welfare of the most vulnerable groups
• Goals of social policy


  • Development of a just, equal and prosperous society
  • Social justice (equity and equality)
  • Social security (protection against risk)
  • Social peace
  • Prosperity shared by majority of the people
• Social welfare policy


  The principles, guidelines, or procedures that serve the purpose of maximizing uniformity in decision making regarding the problem of dependency in society
• Social welfare policies both reflect and help to define the type of society we live in
• Politics in the Philippines is largely about what should be the range and types of social welfare policy adopted by various levels of government
• Roles of social workers

  • Activists
  • Administrators
  • Advocates
  • Public and Agency Officials
• Macro policy


  Broad laws, regulations, or guidelines that provide the framework/mandate for the provision of services and benefits, generated mostly by the public and private non-profit sectors
• Mezzo policy


  Administrative policy that organizations generate to direct and regularize their operations, a direct response to macro level policy
• Micro policy


  When individuals such as social workers translate macro level and mezzo level policy into actual service to clients
• Actors in social welfare policy

  • Citizens through their organizations and social movements
  • Legislator/selected officials
  • Civil society organizations
  • Business sector
• Mechanisms for citizen's participation in local governance and policy making

  • Local development council
  • Local health board
  • Local school board
  • Local peace and order council
• Distributive policies


  The tendency of public officials to try to provide government programs and services that directly benefit their constituencies
• Redistributive policies


  Provide benefits to one category of individual at the expense of another, often reflecting ideological or class conflict
• Types of redistributive policies

  • Vertical (progressive or regressive)
  • Horizontal (from one group to another)
• Regulatory policies


  Government restrictions of individual choice to keep conduct from transcending acceptable bounds, including competitive and protective regulation
• Social work is a policy-based profession, where every social work practitioner is involved in policy on a daily basis