Abstract
D.Phil.
The formulation of the Draft White Paper for Social Welfare in 199S/1996 and the
publication of the White Paper for Social Welfare on 8 August 1997 heralded a new era
for social welfare services in South Africa. The focus of service rendering not only
shifted service fields and directions of specialisation to developmental welfare. but
also recognised the contributions of the various other categories of welfare personnel
to social welfare.