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FAMILIARIZATION
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INTRODUCTION
Social work is the professional activity of helping individual group and all community to enhance and restore their capacity for social functioning and create social condition favorable to this goal. Social work professional deals with people who have various problems in the society with the aim of helping people behavior and improve the well being of the people.
And also social work professional is the guided by the ethnical principle and core value of the social work that social workers are applying when they provide services to the client. The social workers should not realize the client. The social workers should not realize information without the clients consent. Acceptance social workers should accept the client situation; Non-judgment social workers should not judge the client situation or problem.
Competence social workers should work within the area of competence with the professional expertise and a part from the principle of social work there is core value and ethnical principle is follows;
Service, social workers primary goal is to help people indeed and address social problems, social justice , social workers challenge, social workers injustice, dignity and worthily of person, social workers respect the inherent dignity and worthy of person, integrity social workers must behave in trust worthily manners, importance of human relationship, competence, social workers must work within the area of competence and develop professional expertise, both principle core value and ethnical principle help the social worker to provide service to the client.
Social workers work with people to achieve the following objective
• Influence interaction between organization and institute
• Simplify interaction between individual and other in their environment.
• Link people with system that provide them with resources, service and opportunities
• Make organization responsive to people.
• Support people obtain resources.
Block field work are very importance to social work student, because during the field work training student will be able to apply the social work knowledge and skills and in the field also the student will gain more skills and knowledge at agency.
Also it help the institute to evaluate student ability to perform grow and develop as a profession and help the institute to evaluate curriculum according to changing of the society needs .during the field work student apply the knowledge acquired from the classroom into practice .during field work practice students will weigh their strength and weakness.
Community service is a program managed by community service committee under the provision of the community service Act Na 6/2012 community service program shall period to be fixed by the court but not exceed the term have of imprisonment for which the court would have of sentenced the offender
Community service order is an order granted by court for the person punishable by imprisonment for term not exceeding three year but for which the court determines a term of imprison for three year or less with or without the option of a mine ,to be appropriate, the court may subject to the Act make a community order to requiring the offender to perform community service Act Na .6/2002
Probation is a treatment for which an individual is placed under certain condition for rehabilitation.
AKNOLEDGEMENT
It is my duty and pleasure of mine to thank all participant and assistant for their contribution in one or another. They all spent a lot of time to help me to get better experience in helping client. My block field work would not have been complete without the collaboration of these people
Field at all I thank the almighty God for helping me to accomplish effective my block field work regardless of multiple activities which face me and giving good health which enable me to do my field work smoothly without any buries.
Special thanks go to my mother for giving a strong financial support and also my family for moral support, financial, tolerance and encouragement during the whore time of my field work practice.
Appreciation goes to my field supervise Mr. Shirima as well as my field coordinator, for his instructions on how to deal with bock field work to gain more experience on how to deal with offender as the probation officers at Manzese/Sinza primary court without forgetting all employees of Manzese/Sinza primary court staff for all their help and support which enable me to gain confidence and more experience as probation officers I appreciated greatly their word of encouragement
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE AGENCY
Probation and Community Services department officially was established in July 2008, the following are restructuring of organization structure, it was known as community service secretariat which was introduced in July 2003 and responsible for implementing community service Act No. 6/2002.
The changes that took place in the Ministry of Home Affairs mandated the department of Probation of offenders Act, Cap, 247 RE: 25/1994 and Exactly Mural Penal employment schemes (Extra, Moral Regulation, and GN.No.77/1968) as part of after care service.
However, the establishment of probation and Community Service Department came as the result of challenge that faced the department in the implementation of activities at regional and district level. At this level, the department depended absolutely in Community Service Office from ministry of Health and Social Welfare and TAMISEMI for implementing its activities (S.12 of community Act No 6/2002). Therefore, due to this dependency, there was no accountability among the Community Service Officers, since the Ministry.
Ministry of Home Affairs has no legal power to hold responsible of any office from other Ministry (Ministry of Health and Social Welfare TAMISEMI) in case the office was offended. To solve this dilemma the Ministry of Home Affairs with collaboration with the social welfare Department as well as the Ministry of Public service to transfer the Probation Services from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to Ministry of Home Affairs.
Following the transfer of Probation Service, the Management of Public Service allowed the Ministry of Home Affairs to employ 1250 Probation Officers from Ministry of Health and Social welfare and TAMISEMI to begin with the department of Probation and Community service has employed 100 Probation Officers in various religious and District in Tanzania main land where the Department activities are in operational.
In order to implement its activities effectively the department of Probation and Community Service is in the process of amending the acquired legislation (The Parole Board Act No.25/1994) The Probation of offender Act Cap.247 and Extra Mural Regulation of 1968) to Suit the circumstance. Parallel to the amendment, the department also is in the final stage of purchasing working tools (computer, printer, scanner, photocopy machine Motorcycle and Motorcars
The department is working toward educating key stake holders such as magistrates, public prosecutors, prisons officers, police, the local government authority and the generally public order to make them change their attitude toward offender and see the alternative sentences to imprisonment as viable and effective punishment that can reduce congestion in prisons.
CONCLUSION
Working at Sinza Primary court office of probation community service and reality shape my ability through transfer and application of knowledge learnt in the class room into real life situation include probation offender Act Cap 247, community service Act No 6/2002 among other learnt.