Statutory social work is a mode of intervention within social work which poses
many emotional and physical challenges to social workers. Social workers
execute the implementing of the Children's Act (Act 38 of 2005) through the
statutory removal process and they are the primary facilitators of this process.
The goal of the statutory removal process is to protect children from abuse,
neglect and exploitation by their biological parents or carers.
Although research has been done previously about the experiences of social
workers with regards to the statutory removal process, the research was limited
to studies in America and England. The goal of this study was to explore the
experiences of social workers concerning the statutory removal process in South
Africa in order to determine what the influences of these experiences were on the
implementation of the statutory removal process.
The research study is a qualitative study and a phenomenological strategy was
followed to determine the social workers' experiences of the statutory removal
process. The researcher made use of non-probability sampling through
purposeful sampling to select participants for the study. Unstructured interviews
were conducted with 26 social workers who are directly involved with the
statutory removal of children. Interviewing took place until a saturation point was
reached in the study. All interviews were transcribed for the purpose of data analyses,
after which themes and sub-themes were identified. The themes and
sub-themes were verified against existing literature, after which conclusions and
recommendations were made. / MSW, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/11008 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Basson, Elzanne |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | other |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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