SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Neglect, Occupational Safety And Health, Child Poverty

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Janet Balfour

Document Summary

Less communal, more struggling with less resources, class struggles. Unemployment insurance: amended 6 times between 1946-1954 and since, mostly to include new groups. Implement appeal provisions - to promote recognition & protection of rights of socially. & economically disadvantaged canadians: 1966 cap, replacing the older formulas for paying or co-paying for social welfare with the. Provinces: consolidated federal p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial go(cid:448)(cid:859)t (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)s to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate a (cid:373)o(cid:396)e sha(cid:396)ed (cid:448)isio(cid:374) & delivery of social welfare system, get rid of categorical assistance & create more universal approaches, but, still advanced more means-tested & insurance based programs. Cap attempted to: provide assistance to the working poor across the country more uniformly, Include funding of social services such as day care & counseling, etc: remove residency requirements, ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) (cid:858)appeals (cid:373)e(cid:272)ha(cid:374)is(cid:373)(cid:859, promoted the concept of social welfare as a right. Implement cost sharing with the provinces (50/50 no cap on amount), and. Comprehensive reform (1970 1990s: recognition of vulnerability of women, oas extended to widows.