Carrying out social work is conducive to meeting people's growing demand for services.
With the gradual solution of people's material survival problems, a large number of diversified and personalized service needs have emerged, which has become the biggest problem to protect people's livelihood at present, such as the integration of urban floating population, the care of left-behind people in rural areas, the care of the elderly, the care of the disabled, the care of families who have lost their families and so on. It is far from enough for the government to meet these service demands, and it is urgent to establish a modern service system. Social work is a demand-oriented and service-oriented system. Professional service organizations and social workers rooted in the grass-roots level transmit policies, reflect demands and link resources, and provide timely services such as life help, humanistic care, spiritual comfort, relationship adjustment, rights protection and potential exploration, which can make up for the shortcomings of the government, meet the needs of the masses, solve the "last mile" problem of service and enhance people's happiness.
Carrying out social work is conducive to improving the level and efficiency of serving the people.
The work is getting more and more difficult, and the working methods are becoming more and more unsuitable. This is a puzzle faced by many cadres. The crux lies in the fact that the working concept and methods have not changed with the development of society. Social work adheres to the modern concepts of people-oriented, altruism, helping others to help themselves, respect, acceptance, tolerance and friendliness, and its methods are more scientific, professional and flexible, highlighting personal feelings and humanistic care and social and psychological support, which is undoubtedly a working method more suitable for the current social situation. Set up social work posts in government agencies and institutions to attract social workers; Introducing the concept of social work into the ranks of cadres, popularizing social work knowledge, applying social work methods, and combining the successful experience of mass work and ideological and political work we have accumulated for many years are effective ways to solve the problem that old methods are useless and new methods are few.
Carrying out social work is conducive to the implementation of the major decision of "social governance innovation".
The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee put forward an innovative social governance system, which is a major sublimation of the ruling concept. The biggest difference between "governance" and "management" is that the single responsibility of the government has become government-led, social participation, equal consultation and cooperation. The responsibilities and advantages of social work are to cultivate and expand social organizations, train professional social workers, stimulate social vitality and promote social participation. Carrying out social work can change the status quo of "strong government and weak society" and form a modern governance system as soon as possible, in which government management forces and social adjustment forces, government administrative functions and social autonomy functions complement each other and share responsibilities.
Carrying out social work is beneficial to close the relationship between the party and the masses and build a harmonious society.
Since the reform and opening up, people's living standards have greatly improved, which is an indisputable fact, but why do mass incidents and even extremely vicious incidents continue to occur? People have more and more misunderstandings, complaints and distrust of the government? An important institutional reason is that all the needs of the masses are provided exclusively and directly by the government. Despite the government's best efforts, there are still many places that are not satisfactory. To carry out social work, the government entrusts a lot of daily and service work to social organizations by purchasing, which can not only supplement the absence of the government and improve the service quality, but also form a "firewall" between the government and the masses to avoid and reduce direct contradictions and conflicts.
Carrying out social work is conducive to streamlining government institutions and personnel.
The "simplification-expansion-re-simplification-re-expansion" of government agencies and personnel has become a well-known problem. The fundamental reason is that the government is an all-powerful government from the day of its establishment, with unlimited responsibilities and it is difficult to reduce institutions and personnel. Carry out social work, separate government from enterprise, and socialize, market and contract public services. The government spends money on services and does nothing to support people. At the beginning of the reform, the separation of government from enterprise and the handing over of enterprise affairs to enterprises not only released great vitality to the market, but also made the government slim down. If politics and society can be separated and social affairs can be entrusted to society, not only can society release great vitality, but the government can also slim down again and truly realize "small government and big society"
Carrying out social work is conducive to expanding new employment space.
People's service demand is an infinite consumer market, and social work with service as its responsibility is a human resource-intensive industry. There is one social worker per thousand people in developed countries, and China has a population of 65.438+0.3 billion, so social work has great employment potential.