Comments on: Don’t stand in the way of evolving social workers

By: Too Much Too Many

Too Much Too Many — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:30:20 +0000

Hopefully we can see the SOCIAL being brought back into social work. In the structured social work model, there is a lot of WORK but largely anti social.

By: Sawdust

Sawdust — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:08:59 +0000

Ya, all fair and square, PAP are bringing in the foreign trash in drones, Native Singaporean MUST bring in oppositions in drones to match!

By: angry reservist

angry reservist — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:04:53 +0000

Hi nuts,
fully agreed with you on that…The time for talk is over…i would get violent for now.. but at least Singaporean must be more assertive in their own country..enough of foreign trash

By: nuts

nuts — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:14:59 +0000

I have seen too many corrupted official in Singapore. I too have seen too many jobless Singaporeans taking up jobs not related to their field of study.
Those who get the jobs are the Foreign Thrash. Is time to vote wisely before they get in more Foreign Thrash to justify for their ridiculous salary.
Locally born Singaporeans need to get violent now. If not, we will be marginalized. Hope being in riot control can help me help every locally born Singaporean.

By: Incredulous

Incredulous — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:08:02 +0000

The problem with social work, is that they are faced with insurmountable red tape from the government.

Speaking from experience through my divorcee cousin with 4 kids, who lost her flat after being unable to pay for it, when he husband left. Instead of the MCDYS helping her, they offered her several contact numbers to NGOs.

It took one of the NGOs nearly 5 years to convince HDB to allow her to rent a flat for her and her 4 kids. I assume the reluctance to help from our govt/stat boards is due to the fact that they like to paint a rosy picture of how well Singaporeans are. My cousin’s plight would be a blemish on their records should they provided help for her.

TOC really need to interview these NGOs and expose the hyprocisy of the MIW.

By: Fugazzi

Fugazzi — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:34:49 +0000

Being a complete reprobate and yet defining and dictating about social work. Aiyoh, even an imbecile can see thru this hogwash lah.
This is the legacy lah of 50 years of unbridled rule!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:35 +0000

Social workers are sadly limited in their field of work to case management, counselling, financial assistance, and programme management. Although these are worthy fields of work on their own, the missing piece is advocacy for the people. Social work here is far behind that of Hong Kong.

By: socialistworkless

socialistworkless — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:19:41 +0000

This evolvement of social workers is good, for as long as social workers are going to work as case managers, their focus will be on containing costs, utilisation management, prior authorisation, welfare context, services that are covered

great balakampon…now you want a social worker to be profit drivens as well..it liked askin mother teresa to charge for every donations she get when treatin the lepers…
dr balekampon i prayed to you that you will never contract leperosy disease…
by the way..have you been to calcutta lateLEE?