Social workers have a gap of 70% people feel that society is not enough

Polls reveal the three areas of social worker shortage: social assistance, social welfare, community service our reporter Xiangnan Intern Zhang Ruiyan Recently, Beijing issued regulations said that the area of general higher education in the Beijing University of Non-Peking, to the previous graduates, such as candidates for social workers, and two consecutive years of examination qualified, To obtain the Beijing hukou.　　The announcement immediately sparked a lively public debate. Last week, a survey of 2056 people by the Social Research Center of China Youth Daily, through the Chinese network of public opinion and Sina, showed that 16.7% of people said they enjoyed social work services.　　34.4% said they had an understanding of the nature of the work of social workers, but only 8.4% said they were "very knowledgeable". 75.3% of people think that there is a lack of social workers who can provide professional services. This January, the Secretary of Beijing Municipal Committee for Social Work Song Guilen said that Beijing's ideal social worker scale should be 38,000 people, but the number of social workers in the city is only 28,000, social workers have a gap of more than million people.　　The gap between social workers and talent is not only in Beijing, but also in other parts of the country. Apart from the "big gap", the problem of social workers being "unable to stay" is also very serious.　　According to the Beijing Times and other media reports, in 2009, the average loss rate of social workers in Beijing amounted to 50%, some districts and counties of the loss rate unexpectedly as high as two-thirds. In this survey, 75.3% of the people bluntly, their own side lack of professional services to provide social workers.　　Of these, 23.9% said they were "very deficient". In particular, the respondents considered that the three major areas of social workers lacking in the current society were: Community Assistance (66.5%), Social Welfare (61.8%), community Service (56.8%).　　Next: Legal rights (52.2%), medical Services (51.6%), psychological Counseling (48.6%), Social Behavior Correction (43.2%), Employment Services (41.3%), Family Marriage Service (28%), etc.　　Professor He Xuesong, vice dean of society and Public Administration, East China University of Technology, in an interview with the Chinese Youth Daily, it was pointed out that in the mature countries and regions of social workers, the number of social workers is generally about 2 per thousand of the total population, according to this ratio, the gap of social workers in China is undoubtedly very large.　　Why is there a shortage of social workers? Dong Jun, a 2010-year master's degree in Beijing, is now a social worker at a community service center in Xuanwu District, Beijing. One year down, the people who had been selected as social workers with him have gone nearly one-third. The reason, Dong Jun think is too hard work, wages too low, "the situation of the community is more complex, to do a good job social workers must pay a lot of energy, peacetime and holiday also often overtime." However, our wages are very low, barely enough to maintain a basic life, there is no attraction at all. "In understanding the work of social workers and work environment, many college students feel that their high degree of education still do this kind of work is too wronged, and familyThere is a big difference between expectations.　　"Dong Jun said. Lu Chang, Beijing Xuanwu District staff member Jia, worked with several civilians college students social workers. She found that there were a few young people in these men who were just for a mixed account. "Some college student social workers, just starting to work on how to do part-time to earn money, when resignation test civil servants, working attitude is very bad." College students to do social workers, should be fully psychological preparation, if only for mixed account, it is better not to come. Chen Hong, the manager of Project Cooperation Department of Shanghai Youth Social Work Talent Service Center, the Gap of social workers ' talents is big, and it is related to the training mode of social worker in colleges and universities.　　Due to the late start of social work in colleges and universities, most of the courses are introduced from abroad, there is no local curriculum, and the talents are difficult to adapt to the realistic demand of social workers. "Moreover, the current social workers in the understanding and recognition of the degree is not enough, many people think social workers is volunteer, volunteer, and there is no neighbourhood of the neighborhood uncle Aunt has experience, take the country's wages is not necessary."　　"Chen Hong said.　　In the survey, the respondents considered that the two main reasons for the shortage of social workers and their retention were the lack of recognition of social workers, the Low society status (70.1%) and the low wages of social workers (69.3%).　　Other reasons include: the training mechanism of social workers is backward (59.5%), social workers work is not stable, job prospects are not clear (58.9%), social workers work hard and tired (57.4%), social workers professional Qualification certification mechanism is not perfect, specialization degree is not enough (56.5%), etc. Professor Peng Huamin, deputy dean of the Sociology Institute of Nanjing University and director of the Center for Social Work, pointed out that at present, social workers ' wages in our country are generally low, it is difficult to maintain basic living, and some areas have not paid the wages of social workers. Many people only promote jobs that can make money and despise social workers. In addition, there is a certain misunderstanding about social work itself, and many people think that social workers do nothing and neglect the professionalism of social workers. "Imagine that when a college student trained by a professional social worker is assigned to the community to organize basketball games and collect utilities, how can he produce a professional identity at work?" How can we go on doing it for long?　　"80.1% of the people suggested that the social workers ' Community identification survey show that for Beijing's practice of attracting social workers with hukou, 25.6% said" full support "and 10.4% per cent said" no ", and most respondents (55%) expressed support but considered it not a fundamental measure. How can we solve the problem that the social workers have a big gap and cannot keep?　　In the survey, the top two measures were to raise social identity (80.1%) and to raise the wage level of social workers (72.7%). Professor Malizhuang, director of the Department of Social Work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that if the community needed quality services, it would need to be purchased at an appropriate price. Professor Peng Huamin that we urgently need to establish a link with the civil service wage system or holdFlat social workers pay system to provide appropriate remuneration. "In Hong Kong, when we mention that someone is a social worker, we all respect him very much," he said. Because in their eyes, social workers serve the society and are the doctors of society. The mainland is still not doing enough, we need to give social workers more attention, love, support and respect. Peng Huamin said, at the same time, we should also pay attention to the social work professionals training. Compared with last year, the number of graduate students enrolled in social work in our Institute has increased significantly, reaching more than 220 people, ranking first in the country. But that is far from enough for a huge social need.　　"He xuesong suggested that a set of occupational hierarchies should be set up for social workers, and the government should also recruit more public servants from front-line social workers and expand the development space of social workers so as to make the career prospects of social workers clearer." Other suggestions made by the respondents included improving social workers ' promotion channels, making social workers see the Future (67.4%), increasing the degree of specialization of social workers (59.2%) and increasing the number of social workers (38.5%).