These are presentation slides for MA Social Work at the Department of Social Work, University of Peshawar. Anyone can use them for their own benefit. Dr. Imran Ahmad Sajid

1. 1st Social Welfare Policy in Pakistan 1955
Source: Shireen Rehmatullah. (2002). Social Welfare in Pakistan. Karachi: Oxford University Press

2. Functions of Social Welfare
• As a first step towards social policy, the basic function
of social welfare was defined by Dr. F. De. Jongh as
• “to help people to adjust to the social problems of
life.”
• What these functions practically include, depends on
the total situation of the community and practically on
its unmet needs. So the concept of social welfare is
• “to help people to help themselves either by organizing
self-help or by helping them to locate resources, or by
working with them directly or creating new agencies of
help.”

3. Prevailing Social Problems
1. Poverty;
2. Lack of education;
3. Ill-health, bad sanitation, and bad nutrition
habits;
4. Bad housing;
5. Maladjustment of groups and individuals to new
conditions of life;
6. Lack of services for socially endangered groups;
and
7. Lack of group work and recreation facilities.

4. Elements of Social Policy
1. A community development programme;
2. A programme to stimulate the development of
private agencies;
3. A programme to stimulate the development of
social welfare programme in the provinces and
local authorities (i.e. decentralization of social
welfare);
4. A new housing policy; and
5. A new extended programme for labour
protection.

5. Criticism
1. Neglecting Islamic Welfare System
2. Voluntary agencies gained momentum
3. It fell into the hands of bureaucracy
4. Imposition of Marshall Law