Abstract
The practice of supervision in social work is understood as the backbone of the profession. This is underpinned by the major functions of supervision that are educative, supportive and administrative. On the other hand, various studies have pointed to the inadequacies of supervision to facilitate the functions that it is set to achieve toward quality service provision. In South Africa, social welfare service provision is underpinned by a social development approach. However, the collected data in a foregoing study pointed to a general misalignment between the approach to supervision practice and social work practice approaches (social development approach in particular). This is one of the inadequacies leading to the failure of social work supervision practice...