Implementation of the Education Function on the Supervision of Child Social Worker in Indonesia

  • Ellya Susilowati, Dwi Yuliani, Adi Fahrudin

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to produce an overview of the supervision implementation on the educational function carried out by the supervisor of child social worker. This research used an internet-based survey of supervisors and child Social Workers in 34 provinces which was responded by 161 people. To complete the data, interviews and Focus Group Discussions were conducted in four locations. The research results showed that the educational background of respondents was only 29,19% who had social work education, so they had educational needs especially in conducting assessment and intervention to deal with children's social welfare problems. The implementation of the education function in supervision is mostly (50.93%) still related to the provision of policy or program information from the central and local government. Meanwhile, the distance between the existence of the supervisor and the child social worker supervised far apart. Comparison between supervisors and the social work of child supervised is inadequate (such as 1:62). Media supervision that is used is social media with WhatsApp, so it is less effective. The results of this research recommend the existence of Online-based supervision as a communication system in the process of supervising social work in handling social welfare and child protection.

Keywords:educational function, supervision, child social work practice.

Published
2020-06-06
How to Cite
Ellya Susilowati, Dwi Yuliani, Adi Fahrudin. (2020). Implementation of the Education Function on the Supervision of Child Social Worker in Indonesia. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(04), 2632 - 2643. Retrieved from http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/21137