Document Title: Social welfare issues, social services, issues that influence the social services today

Paper code: 13107

Social welfare issues, social services, factors that influence the social services today

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A social welfare issue is an issue within the society that makes it difficult for people to achieve their full potential. Therefore social welfare issues are general factors that damage society. A social welfare problem can be associated with a particular area or group of people in a society and hence affects how they react to certain situations. Not only do social welfare issues affect many people directly, but they also affect all of us indirectly.

There are a number of social welfare issues in Uganda including, poverty, unemployment, unequal opportunity, racism, and malnutrition, so are substandard housing, employment discrimination, and child abuse and neglect. Crime and substance abuse are also examples of social problems.

To this end, I will focus on the major three social welfare issues, specifically; Poverty and homelessness, Health care availability and Child abuse and neglect. The following is a discussion of the social welfare issues.