SWPPS

• Topics covered


  • Item Analysis
  • Additional Discussions
  • Social Welfare Principles and Concepts
  • Social Welfare Policies
  • Policy Making Process and Implementation
  • Tools for Policy Analysis
  • LESW Reminders & Tips
  • Q & A
• A parents have voluntarily given up their rights (Deed of Voluntary Commitment)
• B can be declared legally available for adoption due to abandonment and lack of proper care or guardianship
• C court has legally terminated the parental rights of the biological parents or relatives
• Certificate Declaring a Child Legally Available for Adoption

  Final written administrative order issued by the NACC declaring a child to be abandoned and neglected, and committing such child to the care of the NACC through a foster parent, guardian, or duly licensed child-caring or child-placing agency
• The rights of the biological parents, guardian, or other custodian to exercise authority over the child shall cease upon issuance of the CDCLAA
• REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11642 Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child Care Act
• Legal Separation


  Married couples to live separately
• Dissolution of marriage


  While still remaining legally married
• Not (yet) recognized = not legal
• Grounds for Legal Separation


  • Infidelity
  • Physical abuse
  • Drug addiction
  • Abandonment
  • Among others
• Process of Legal Separation

  1. Filing a petition

  2. Attending court hearings

  3. Providing evidence
• Effects of Legal Separation

  • Allows spouses to live separately
  • Divide their properties
  • Determine issues related to financial support and child custody
• Both parties remain legally married and cannot remarry
• Public SWA not under the jurisdiction of the board
• Board = regulations of the profession & its practice
• Legislation related to social welfare

  • A Safe Spaces Act
  • Magna Carta for Women
  • Anti-Voyeurism Law
• Expanded the definition of rape in the Penal Code


  Reclassified rape as a crime against persons
• The law aims to provide a broader and more encompassing definition of rape, emphasizing its violation against personal dignity and human rights rather than just chastity
• Recognizance


  Agreement with the court to show up when asked to; also a form of bail
• Principles of Crime


  • Crime is a violation of the law and the state
  • Violations create guilt
  • Justice requires the state to determine blame and impose punishment
  • Crime is a violation of people and relationships
  • Justice involves victims, offenders, and community members
• Central Focus


  • Victim needs
  • Accountability
• Questions in restorative justice

  • Who has been hurt?
  • What are their needs?
  • Whose obligations are these?
• While RA 10121 emphasizes disaster risk reduction and management, it does not specifically mandate the formulation of policies on land and resource management, particularly regarding mining sites
• Residential Care Facility


  Catering to varied categories of clients; operate on a 24-hour basis
• Foster Care


  Temporary parental care: either for adoption or reunification
• Pre-Adoption Care


  Temporary care; preparation for adoption
• Child Development Center


  Daycares providing health, nutrition, early education and social services development programs
• No parent/guardian for 3 mos. by needs were not being met
• Parent/guardian present mandatorily placed at IJISC
• Center-based Intervention


  Required to undergo a more intensive multi-disciplinary intervention program
• 15 to below 18 still exempted from criminal liability but not civil liability
• MACR: 15 yo and above, BUT this is only for heinous crimes
• If a child violates

  • Local ordinances concerning juvenile status offenses
  • Light offenses and misdemeanors against public order or safety
  • Offenses not applicable to alleged as, accused of, or adjudged as, having committed an offense under Philippine Laws
• Examples of CICL


  • Children accused of committing theft or robbery
  • Physical injuries
  • Malicious mischief
  • Rape
  • Murder
• Children are exempt from prosecution
• Dynamic risk factors


  Changeable factors such as attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances that can be modified through intervention
• Genetic predispositions


  Not changeable through social work intervention
• Static risk factors


  Unchangeable factors like age, history of previous offenses, or past behaviors
• Focusing on static factors does not provide effective intervention strategies