D.S.W. staff on the move
Fifty social work staff will move to the Social Welfare Department’s new offices in Hereford Street on Monday. The move will leave empty the third floor of the department’s main office at the Housing Corporation building in Cathedral Square. The shift is a further move in the department’s plan to decentralise the large city office by creating four autonomous district offices in
the suburbs. Social work services being shifted to 195 Hereford Street included adoption, foster care, the child protection team, case work teams, training units, volunteer services, and social workers for the inner city and Christchurch south.
The department and the Housing Corporation have been in conflict over the rental, but the depart-
ment’s director, Mr Maurice Doocey, said the move out signalled the "termination of rental payments for the third floor.”
The department paid rental on a “floor by floor” basis. It had already notified the corporation of its departure. Mr Doocey would not comment on whether the corporation would continue to charge the department.
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