1 Social Work: Definition, Scope, Values and Practice in India · 1.3 Social welfare and practice in India
1.3.1 Social welfare, social policy and voluntary action
Social welfare is the organised system of services that helps people function well in society (Friedlander, Dolgoff); it can be residual or institutional (Wilensky and Lebeaux), and Titmuss gave three models of social policy; Beveridge defined voluntary action as private action not directed by the State, which in India is carried by NGOs and supported by the Central Social Welfare Board (1953).
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Key terms
- social welfare
- Friedlander
- Dolgoff
- Feldstein
- residual model
- institutional model
- Wilensky and Lebeaux
- Titmuss
- handmaiden model
- industrial achievement-performance model
- institutional redistributive model
- social division of welfare
- welfare state
- William Temple
- Beveridge Report
- five giants
- T.H. Marshall
- Esping-Andersen
- voluntary action
- Beveridge
- mutual aid
- philanthropy
- NGO
- voluntary organisation
- Societies Registration Act
- Section 8 company
- FCRA
- National Policy on the Voluntary Sector
- CAPART
- CSWB
- Durgabai Deshmukh
- State Social Welfare Boards
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