5.1.4 Define The Target Group Neglected Children More Precisely
The cluster ‘neglected children over 5 years of age’ contains 3.2 million children – 74 percent of PKSA’s target group. Children in LKSAs that care for
this cluster are mostly children who have parents that live in other districts. They have sent their children to these kinds of pantis because they hope that
there they will get a better education see chapter 4.1.1. These children need accessible educational facilities near their home area. But they do not
need institutional care. Supporting children, who live in pantis but have parents in other districts or provinces, is not consistent with the principle of
de-institutionalization. For these reasons PKSA should not approve children living in Pantis for
neglected children, whose parents are alive and reside in other districts or provinces. Based on field study results and on other studies we assume that
more than 80 percent of children living in pantis for neglected children have parents living in other areas. Limiting eligibility to neglected children from the
same district will make room for the many other children, who need PKSA interventions.
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5.1.5 Increase The Number and Improve The Performance Management of Social Workers
Social workers are PKSA’s main tool for counseling caregivers and children, for linking them to social service organizations and for achieving
behavioral change at family and community level. However, only a small number of LKSAs have been supplied by PKSA with social workers.
More than 90 percent of LKSAs have no social workers and therefore are unable to apply the full PKSA concept. It is therefore imperative that
PKSA increases the number of social workers from presently 686 to at least 5,000 andor train district and sub-district level social workers to
perform PKSA functions. In order to make full use of the potential ofadequately trained social
workers their working conditions e.g. job security, career prospects, work load have to be improved. They require precise job descriptions,
on-the–job training based on a competency model, followed by adequate guidance and supervision. They need a legal status and authority to
intervene in child protection issues and have to be organized in teams. Assuming that PKSA will continue to expand its coverage and that the
main role of the social workers is to facilitate of the social rehabilitation, then the way of managing the performance of social workers has to
be improved.Even if PKSA does not go beyond the current number of social workers, it is time to develop a systematic human resource
management system. This system should address all aspects of human resource management including recruitment system, works design and
organization, the development of working capabilities and attitudes, supervision, working conditions, as well as a performance and reward
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