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    Social policy refers to guidelines for meeting social needs through social services and welfare systems. It aims to create conditions allowing people to improve their living standards and economic opportunities. The objectives of social policy are to secure basic economic needs and public health for all individuals as well as provide equal opportunities and social rights. Social policy involves identifying issues, defining goals, evaluating policy alternatives, implementing solutions, and assessing outcomes through processes that are influenced by economic, political, social and other factors.

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    Social policy refers to guidelines for meeting social needs through social services and welfare systems. It aims to create conditions allowing people to improve their living standards and economic opportunities. The objectives of social policy are to secure basic economic needs and public health for all individuals as well as provide equal opportunities and social rights. Social policy involves identifying issues, defining goals, evaluating policy alternatives, implementing solutions, and assessing outcomes through processes that are influenced by economic, political, social and other factors.

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    Social policy refers to guidelines for meeting social needs through social services and welfare systems. It aims to create conditions allowing people to improve their living standards and economic opportunities. The objectives of social policy are to secure basic economic needs and public health for all individuals as well as provide equal opportunities and social rights. Social policy involves identifying issues, defining goals, evaluating policy alternatives, implementing solutions, and assessing outcomes through processes that are influenced by economic, political, social and other factors.

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    Social Policy

    Definition
    Social policy is concerned with the study of a range of social needs & the functioning, in conditions of scarcity, of human organization, traditionally called social services or social welfare system to meet these needs They relates to guidelines for the changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conducive to human welfare

    Social policy encourages imagination & flexibility in seeking solutions to social problems It is concerned with intervention by governments & other organizations to meet human needs It is interdisciplinary & applied subject which is concerned to analyze the distribution & delivery of resources in response to social need. Social policy refers both to the activity of policy making to promote well-being & to academic study of such action

    Characteristics
    Subject as well as an area of practice An instrument Distributional & redistributive role Unilateral transfer of resources from one section of the society to another Concern for weaker & vulnerable Co-existence

    Objectives
    To create conditions in which each area, urban or rural, & each group with distinctive & identifiable problems, is able to lift itself overcome its limitations, and improve living conditions & economic opportunities. To secure for each human being the economic necessities, a high std of health & favorable living conditions, freedom of thought & action & equal opportunities for all round development & self respect

    Scope
    Social sectors Social insurance Social protection Social services Social rights

    Models
    Residual welfare Achievement performance Institutional redistribution

    Residual welfare
    This concept of welfare sees State assistance as temporary, minimal, requiring evidence of need, and available only after all other avenues of help have been exhausted Individual is viewed as the most important unit & instrument of his own welfare Therefore it is his responsibility of utilizing for achieving his potential

    Achievement Performance Model


    Social needs should be met on the basis of merit, achieved status differentials, work performance & productivity Community should undertake the responsibility to develop & promote social & welfare services Beneficiaries should pay for these services like any other services in the market Access to these services is dependent ones ability to pay

    Institutional redistribution
    It is based on moral concept of social justice & thus recognizes the right of the individual to obtain the basic social & welfare services, irrespective of whether he is able to pay for them or not. Services are universally provided, irrespective of income, education & caste status Considered as essential function of the state

    Process
    1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Identifying problems & opportunities Defining & prioritizing issues Placing issues on public agenda Defining goals & objectives and identifying alternatives Evaluating alternatives Selecting alternatives Implementing selected alternatives Evaluating programmes

    Determinants
    Economic factor Political Social & cultural Family Celebrations Tradition & change International aid

    Sources
    Constitution Legislation Administration National plan

    Examples
    National policy for older people For children For disability National water policy Education Health Development of youth Housing Nutrition OBC Population policy SC ST Women empowerment

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