From October 15, 2024, what are cases of prohibiting the practice of social work in Vietnam?

From October 15, 2024, what are cases of prohibiting the practice of social work in Vietnam?

Based on Article 32 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP, there are 04 cases of prohibiting the practice of social work in Vietnam:

(1) Persons who have been convicted and have not had their criminal records expunged.

(2) Application of administrative measures to be sent to compulsory education centers, compulsory detoxification establishments, reform schools, or education at commune, ward, or commune-level town.

(3) Currently under criminal investigation.

(4) Loss of civil act capacity or having difficulties in awareness, behavior management, limited civil act capacity, and other cases according to the law.

From October 15, 2024, what are cases of prohibiting the practice of social work in Vietnam? (Internet image)

What are the conditions for practicing social work in Vietnam?

Based on Article 31 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP, Vietnamese citizens residing in Vietnam, foreigners, and overseas Vietnamese who adhere to the Constitution and laws of Vietnam with good ethics and meeting the following conditions are allowed to practice social work:

- Graduated from intermediate, college, university, or postgraduate studies in social work, sociology, psychology, special education, or other social science fields as prescribed by law.

- Ensuring health conditions to practice social work.

- Not falling under the cases specified in Article 32 of this Decree or other cases according to the law on administrative violation handling.

- Having a certificate of registration for practicing social work issued by a competent authority that is still valid.

What are social work services?

Based on Article 8 of Decree 110/2024/ND-CP, social work services are defined as:

Article 8. Social work services

Social work services include one or more of the following services:

1. Provide emergency protection services

a) Assess the risk, needs of the subject; screen and classify subjects. When necessary, refer the subject to appropriate medical, educational, police agencies, or other suitable organizations.

b) Ensure the safety and fulfill the emergency needs of the subject for medical care, safe temporary shelter, drinking water, food, clothing, essential items, and transportation.

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Social work services include:

(1) Provide emergency protection services

- Assess the risk, needs of the subject; screen and classify subjects. When necessary, refer the subject to appropriate medical, educational, police agencies, or other suitable organizations.

- Ensure the safety and fulfill the emergency needs of the subject for medical care, safe temporary shelter, drinking water, food, clothing, essential items, and transportation.

(2) Provide care, intervention, rehabilitation and development support services

- Assess needs, screen, classify subjects; create case management records.

- Counsel, advise, provide psychological support, and psychological rehabilitation for the subject.

- Treat mental disturbances, trauma therapy, psychological crisis therapy, and physical rehabilitation.

- Intervene, protect, care, rehabilitate, and support development for subjects.

- Develop and implement intervention plans to assist subjects; monitor, review, evaluate intervention activities, assistance, and adjust the plan accordingly.

- Conclude intervention support plans for subjects, store subject management records, or implement new intervention plans if needed.

- Manage, care for, and foster the subjects.

- Connect and provide medical treatment services, health care; connect and refer subjects to other social work service facilities or institutions to meet their needs.

- Organize rehabilitation, cultural, sports, religious activities, and other activities suitable for the age and health of the subject.

- Organize cultural education, vocational orientation, professional education, create livelihoods, and employment to help subjects develop physically, intellectually, personally, and integrate into the community.

- Support subjects to benefit from social welfare policies; find and arrange appropriate forms of care.

(3) Provide social education and capacity building services

- Provide social education services, develop self-solving abilities, parent education; teach life skills to children and minors.

- Train, foster, and provide social work training for officials and public employees, social work staff, and collaborators.

- Organize training courses, seminars to provide knowledge and skills for groups in need.

(4) Provide services to prevent subjects from falling into difficult situations, being exploited, abused; school violence, gender and family violence; maltreatment and labor exploitation.

(5) Carry out activities providing social work services in health, education, judiciary, court, social welfare, gender equality, child protection, elderly care, disability care, poverty reduction, drug prevention, community development, social work with laborers, and other fields as prescribed by law.

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

(7) Support community development

- Liaise with residents, local authorities to identify community issues and develop community assistance programs and plans.

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

- Build a network of social work staff, collaborators, and volunteers.

- Organize communication activities to raise awareness about social work.

(8) Support subjects eligible to leave social assistance institutions, detention centers, detoxification centers, medical facilities to return to family, reintegrate into the community, and stabilize their life.

(9) Mobilize resources to carry out social work activities.