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Programme 4: Welfare Services Policy Development and Implementation Support
Purpose: Create an enabling environment for the delivery of equitable developmental welfare services through the formulation of policies, norms and standards, best practices and provide sup-
port to implementation agency

Sub-programmes:

• Service Standards ensures the transformation and standardisation of social welfare services through the development and coordination of overarching policies and legislation that
promote integrated, quality-driven, professional and accountable service delivery;
• Social Service Professional support provides overarching policies legislation and programmes for regulation of social service professions;

• Substance Abuse develops, supports and monitors the implementation of policies, legislation, and norms and standards for combating substance abuse;
• Older Persons develops, supports and monitors the implementation of policies, legislation, and norms and standards for social welfare services to older people;

• Disability Rights promotes the empowerment and rights of persons with disabilities through accelerated mainstreaming of disability considerations and the strengthening of disability
specific services;
• Children develops, supports and monitor the implementation of policies, legislation and norms and standards for social welfare services to children;

• Families develops, supports and monitors the implementation of policies, legislation and programmes for services aimed at strengthening families;

• Social Crime Prevention and Victim Empowerment develops, supports and monitors the implementation of policies, legislation and programmes aimed at protecting, empowering, and
supporting victims of crime and violence; and
• HIV and AIDS develops, supports and monitors the implementation of policies, programmes and guidelines aimed at preventing and mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS in line with the
2017-2022 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs

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