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SWPP Perspectives

The document discusses different perspectives on social welfare policy: 1. The residual perspective sees social welfare as focusing on problems and gaps, providing benefits only when individuals fail to provide for themselves. 2. The institutional perspective views social welfare as providing ongoing support to all people in need as a government responsibility. 3. Universal provision of welfare means social benefits are equally available to all members of society regardless of income, while selective provision restricts benefits only to those who can demonstrate need through eligibility.

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SWPP Perspectives

The document discusses different perspectives on social welfare policy: 1. The residual perspective sees social welfare as focusing on problems and gaps, providing benefits only when individuals fail to provide for themselves. 2. The institutional perspective views social welfare as providing ongoing support to all people in need as a government responsibility. 3. Universal provision of welfare means social benefits are equally available to all members of society regardless of income, while selective provision restricts benefits only to those who can demonstrate need through eligibility.

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Perspective on Social Welfare Policy and Program Development - SEL

Table of contents

1. Residual Perspective
2. Institutional Perspective
3. Universal Provision of Welfare
4. Selective Provision

Residual Perspective

• Conceive Social Welfare as focusing on problems and gaps, with social welfare benefits and
services supplied only when people fail to provide adequacy for themselves and problem arise
(Blau,2004)

• Reactive, solving only after they occur

• Respond to problems caused by individual personal failures

Institutional Perspective

• Social Welfare Policies and Programs should provide on-going support to all people in need

• Social Welfare Policies and Programs relieve tensions and help solve problems distressing
people in their environment

• Conceived social welfare as the responsibility of the government

Universal Provision of Welfare

• Social Welfare Benefits should be equally available to all members of society, regardless of their
income of means

• In developing countries, there is no poverty targeting mechanism that comes remotely near
being accurate in identifying people living in poverty

Selective Provision

• Social welfare benefits are restricted to those who can demonstrate need through established
eligibility

• Selectivity is often presented as being more efficient: less money is spent to better effect. There
are problems with selective services, however: because recipients have to be identified, the
services can be administratively complex and expensive to run, and there are often boundary
problems caused by trying to include some people while excluding others. Selective services
sometimes fail to reach people in need.
Universality and Selectivity

• Universal benefits and services are benefits available to everyone as a right, or at least to whole
categories of people (like 'old people' or 'children'). Selective benefits and services are reserved
for people in need.

• The arguments refer to the same issues as 'institutional' and 'residual' welfare, but there is an
important difference. Institutional and residual welfare are principles: universality and
selectivity are methods. A residual system might use a universal service meanwhile, appropriate
institutional system needs some selective benefits to ensure that needs are met.

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