Social Workers Shaping Welfare Policy in South Africa: The White Paper for Social Welfare and Lessons for Policy Practice

This CSD Perspective was created from Leila Patel’s keynote address to the conference Social Innovation and Engagement: Social Challenges, Policy Practice, and Professional Training of Social Workers, which was held at Washington University in St. Louis, April 6-8, 2014. The Center for Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work invited Dr. Patel to tell her story on the White Paper for Social Welfare.