BSW4802 ASSIGNMENT 1 2025 – FULLY ANSWERED

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BSW4802 Assignment 1 Memo | Due 22 April 2025. All questions fully answered. The goals of this assignment are to provide you with a critical understanding of:  How policies and legislation, including social welfare policies, are developed in South Africa  A framework to analyse and improve social welfare policies and  The role of the social worker as a policy implementer and advocate. Use your prescribed book and two other academic sources. Question 1 1. Describe the role of parliament and civil society in the formulation of policies and legislation. Do you think this is an efficient process? Motivate your answer. Question 2 2. Use a framework for policy analysis and formulation to describe in your own words how a policy analyst can critically analyse and suggest improvements to a social welfare policy. Question 3 3. Discuss which skills, tactics/strategies and roles social workers can use in the implementation of existing policies and advocacy for changes in these policies. Which of the two roles do you see as more important? Motivate your answer.