INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL WORK IS ON STABLE BASES IN ARMENIA, MINISTER OF SOCIAL SECURITY SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Mar 29 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The Institute of social work in Armenia
is on stable bases. Aghvan Vardanian, the RA Minister of Labour and
Social Issues stated about it at the March 29 conference entitled
"Formation of Institute of Social Work in Armenia: Achievements
and Problems." He mentioned that the system of social services was
formed in conditions of social tension existing in the country in
1993. That system was to organize works of addressed allocation of
the humanitarian aid.
In A. Vardanian’s words, a social worker’s functions change during
the time, making them corresponding to the population’s needs and
process of the country’s social-economic development. The Minister
attached importance to the RA law "On Social Assistance" functioning
from 2006 in which the "Social Work and Specialists of Social Work"
part exists. "The law also envisages working out and adoption of ethics
rules for specialists of social work, methodological instructions on
paying home visits," he stated.
A. Vardanian mentioned at the same time that there are problems in this
sphere as well. Those are, particularly, working out of standards of
the social work, continual training of social workers and increase
of special qualification. The Minister expressed a hope that the
themes being presented and discussed during the conference will assist
improvement of the quality of social services to different groups of
the population as well as will serve a basis for working out of the
state policy.