Gwangju City Publishes Common Operation Manual for Social Welfare Corporations and Facilities

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 21st that it will publish a common operation manual unique to Gwangju to present unified operating standards for social welfare corporations and facilities and to enhance the public nature and efficiency of welfare in Gwangju.

The production of the common operation manual is a key welfare innovation task recommended by the Gwangju Innovation Promotion Committee. Gwangju City formed a writing team consisting of field workers selected through a public contest and related public officials, and has been producing the manual for four months since August.

To create a manual reflecting the voices from the field, three expert advisory meetings and five opinion collection processes targeting facility workers and city/district public officials have been conducted so far.

Despite the COVID-19 situation, non-face-to-face video meetings were actively utilized to continuously communicate, discussing the direction and detailed contents of the manual among the writing team multiple times.

Under the basic principle of producing a manual that both the social welfare field and administration can empathize with and apply, the writing team completed the manual by compiling cases analyzing six areas: corporate facility operation, worker management, financial accounting management, donation (goods) management, function reinforcement projects, human rights, and major guidance and inspection contents.

In particular, for areas that received many inquiries during the opinion collection process, more detailed explanations and various forms were included, which is expected to greatly help improve the work efficiency of social welfare facility practitioners.

The manual is planned to be distributed to the field starting next month after the final report meeting and opinion collection scheduled for the 22nd.

Park Hyang, Director of the Welfare and Health Bureau of the city, said, “It is significant that we have prepared a common operation manual together with the field and administration, moving away from the practice of writing operation guidelines centered on administration.” He added, “We will conduct joint public-private manual training to ensure the common manual is practically helpful in the field and will supplement any shortcomings annually.”

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