With the promulgation of LI 1961, the Department of Community Development and Department of Social Welfare at the local level have been merged to become a Department of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies with the new name Department of Social Welfare and Community Development.
The Department assists the Assembly to formulate and implement social welfare and community development policies within the framework of national policy. Again, the Department;
- Facilitates community-based rehabilitation of persons with disabilities;
- Assists and facilitates provision of community care services including:
- • registration of persons with disabilities;
- • assistance to the aged;
- • personal social welfare services;
- • hospital welfare services;
- • assistance to street children, child survival and development; and
- • socio-economic and emotional stability in families;
- Assists to maintain specialized residential services in the districts;
- Facilitates the registration and supervision of non-governmental organizations (NGO) and their activities in the district;
- Assists to organize community development programmes to improve and enrich rural life through:
- • Literacy and adult education classes;
- • Voluntary contribution and communal labour for the provision of facilities and services such as water, schools, library, community centres and public places of convenience or;
- • Teaching deprived or rural women in home management and child care.
- The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) which is a cash transfer programme for the poorest and most disadvantaged families in Ghana is supervised by the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development in Banda District.
