Social-work action call
More effective use of social- i services resources has been ■ urged by the president of the New Zealand Association of i Social Workers (Ms Mary : Gair). She said that adequate incomes for all families, a solu- 1 tion to 'unemployment, and the provision of more localised social services needed
the urgent attention of politicians. “Unemployment was the greatest most immediate social problem. The waste of the skills and effort of the unemployed was a serious { loss to New Zealand and there was a danger of alienating these people from the 1 community. “They adjust to their lower; incomes and withdraw into!
; a pattern of life separate {from the mainstream of society: their contribution as ! productive, involved citizens ’ is lost,” said Ms Gray. : Decentralisation of social {services was essential to make them more effective. People needed to have more Lav locally about what they i wanted from social services land how they wanted them | organised
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