SACSSP NATIONAL INDABA
In 2012 the Council started consulting all social service professionals (Social Workers; also those in Private Practice, Social Auxiliary Workers, Community Development Workers and Practitioners, Probation Officers, Assistant Probation Officers, Child and Youth Care Workers, Youth Workers, EDC Practitioners, Care Workers, including Community Based Personal Care Workers) working in the private and public sectors on various issues affecting them. More…
Dear Colleagues – Please be advised that the KZN SACSSP Indaba which was scheduled for 11 and 12 March 2013 has been postponed. The SACSSP will publicize the new dates as soon as they are made available. Kind Regards _ SACSSP
Dear Colleagues – Please be advised that the KZN SACSSP Indaba which was scheduled for 11 and 12 March 2013 has been postponed. The SACSSP will publicize the new dates as soon as they are made available. Kind Regards _ SACSSP
Welcome to South African Council for Social Service Professions
This site concentrates on the setting and maintaining of Social Service Professions education and training and practice standards. The information is intended to appeal to a wide audience – from the serious researcher to those who are considering a career in Social Service Professions , for example social work.
Practising social work practitioners will find the site most useful. You will be able to find the latest and most up-to-date information about your profession.
International visitors are welcome – particularly those who are doing international social work research and also those who are considering coming to work as social workers in South Africa.
Therefore Council’s business is conducted within the framework of the following principles
- The promotion and maintenance of a high standard of professional ethics.
- The promotion of efficient, economic and effective use of resources.
- Being development oriented.
- Providing services impartially, fairly, equitable and without bias.
- Responding to people’s needs and by encouraging participation in its policy making.
- Being accountable.
- Fostering transparency by providing the public with timely, accessible and accurate information.
- Good human resource management.
- Being broadly representative of the South African people, with employment and personnel
- management practices based on ability, objectivity, fairness and the need to redress the imbalances of the past to achieve representation.