Report of the seminar on social work training in Africa

Abstract

The Seminar way convened as a result of recommendations made by the Workshop on Extension of Family and Child welfare Services within Community Development Programmes, which met in Accra, Ghana, in December I960 and by the Meeting of the Standing Committee on Social Welfare and Community Development, which met in Addis Ababa in February 1962. Its purpose was to bring together directors of schools of social work and administrators of national social welfare in-service training programmes, for an exchange of knowledge and. information on methods of training for social work and on patterns developed in the various African countries for in-service training, the training of auxiliary social workers and formal professional social work education.