Teachers breaking as social workers, NGOs collapse around schools
South Africa must work towards placing a school social worker in every school and finalise the regulations governing school social work.
South Africa is not simply facing a teacher shortage, it is witnessing the erosion of the entire system of care that should surround a school.
Child protection functions as a network: a teacher identifies the warning signs, a school social worker coordinates the response and an NGO provides the specialised service.
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