06 prohibited acts in social work from October 15, 2024 in Vietnam

Recently, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 110/2024/ND-CP on social work, effective from October 15, 2024. It includes regulations on prohibited activities in social work.

What are social work and social work services in Vietnam?​

In Clause 1, Article 3 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP, social work is defined as activities supporting individuals, groups, families, and communities to solve social problems.

Social work services are services provided by organizations or individuals qualified to perform social work activities to support the resolution of social issues for individuals, groups, families, and communities. (Regulated in Clauses 2 and 3, Article 3 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP).

Article 8 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP stipulates that social work services include one or more of the following services:

(1) Providing emergency protection services

- Assessing the risks, needs of the subjects; screening and classifying the subjects. If necessary, referring the subjects to medical, educational establishments, police, or other appropriate agencies and organizations.

- Ensuring safety and meeting the urgent needs of subjects in terms of medical care, safe shelter, drinking water, food, clothing, essential items, and transportation.

(2) Providing care, intervention, recovery, and development support services

- Assessing needs, screening, classifying subjects; preparing case management files.

- Counseling, consultation, psychological support, and psychological rehabilitation for subjects.

- Therapy for mental disorders, trauma, psychological crises, and physical recovery.

- Intervening, protecting, caring, recovering, and supporting the development of subjects.

- Developing and implementing intervention and assistance plans for subjects; monitoring, reviewing, evaluating the intervention and assistance activities, and adjusting the plans accordingly.

- Concluding the intervention support plan for subjects, archiving case management files, or implementing new intervention and assistance plans (if the subjects require).

- Managing, caring for, and nurturing subjects.

- Connecting to provide medical treatment services, health care; connecting and referring subjects to social work service providers or other establishments to meet their needs.

- Organizing rehabilitation, cultural, sports, religious, and other activities appropriate for the age and health of the subjects.

- Organizing educational, vocational orientation, vocational training activities, creating livelihoods, and employment to help subjects develop physically, intellectually, in character, and integrate into the community.

- Supporting subjects to benefit from social security policies; finding and arranging appropriate forms of care.

(3) Providing social education and capacity-building services

- Providing social education services, developing the ability to solve self-problems, educating parenting skills; training life skills for children and adolescents.

- Training, fostering, and providing social work training for officials and public employees, social work staff, and collaborators.

- Organizing training courses and workshops to provide knowledge and skills to target groups in need.

(4) Providing services to prevent subjects from falling into difficult circumstances, abuse situations; school violence, gender-based violence and family violence; abuse and labor exploitation.

(5) Implementing social work service provision in health, education, justice, court, social welfare, gender equality, child protection, elderly and disabled care, poverty reduction, drug prevention, community development, social work with workers, and other fields as prescribed by law.

(6) Managing cases of subjects using social work services at facilities and in the community.

(7) Supporting community development

- Connecting with residents and local authorities to identify community problems for designing community assistance programs and plans.

- Proposing mechanisms, policies, and social work solutions to competent authorities.

- Building networks of employees, collaborators, and social work volunteers.

- Organizing communication activities to raise awareness about social work.

(8) Supporting qualified subjects to leave social assistance facilities, detention centers, rehabilitation centers, health facilities to return to their families, integrate into the community, and stabilize their lives.

(9) Organizing resource mobilization for social work activities.

06 prohibited activities in social work from October 15, 2024, in Vietnam

Based on Article 10 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP, 06 prohibited activities in social work in Vietnam include:

- Providing, disclosing, destroying information, or personal data of subjects without the consent of the subjects or their guardians or representatives, except when requested by competent agencies or individuals in accordance with the law.

- Refusing to provide social work services to subjects in need of urgent protection, except in cases of force majeure as prescribed by law.

- Exploiting the provision of social work services for profit or engaging in illegal activities.

- Exploiting social work practice to profit from the state's policies and support from organizations and individuals.

- Collecting costs or benefits beyond the agreed remuneration and costs from organizations, individuals in the social work service contract, except where otherwise agreed by the parties.

- Exploiting social work practice or providing social work services to violate state interests, rights, and legitimate interests of organizations and individuals.

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