Patel – Social Developement

The White Paper for Social Welfare adopted by Parliament in 1997 provided a policy framework to shift social welfare from meetin g the needs of a small minority to a social development perspective. This policy change has required the complete overhaul of th e current welfare system with far-reaching implications for human and financial resources policy and legislative reform in line with the new constitution and the Bill of Rights changes in institutional arrangements and trade-offs between diff