1.2 Social Service, Social Work and Social Welfare — the Relationship

The three-concepts'-ladder: (1) The social-service: the helping-acts (the charity + the relief + the volunteer's-kindness — the informal-and-occasional); (2) The social-work: the trained- profession (the methods-applied (the education + the ethics + the supervision — the service- PROFESSIONALISED)); (3) The social-welfare: the societal-system (the goals + the policies + the institutions (the service-and-the-work-housed-within — the broadest-frame)); The Venn: the service = the act; the work = the profession; the welfare = the order (the three-overlapping (the law-the-welfare's-skeleton (this-course's-focus))).