The Client'S Rights and the use of the Social Service Exchange

Abstract

The social service exchange since its inception in the charity organization movement of the iSyo's has had as its purpose service to social agencies in order that they might focus social work resources to meet the needs of people and to avoid confusion and waste of duplication. It is possible for a social institution to become arrested at a certain stage of development, so that in the changing scene its practices are vestigial, or at least not closely oriented to current practice, in terms of its changing philosophy and working principles. Today there is widespread concern about the client's rights in relation to the social agency's use of the social service exchange. Social workers have been re-examining this aspect of their practice with the result that marked differences of opinion have been expressed, and it is clear that the convictions of some workers are in conflict with