Country Care Snapshots

Ghana

Social Service Workforce
Year
A national workforce assessment and analysis carried out within the past four years
No Data
Yes
Social Welfare Service Workforce Capacity Assessment. Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Department of Social Welfare, UNICEF, 2020
A system of licensing/registration of social service professionals
No Data
Partly
DSW, 2020
No. of government social service workers with child protection responsibilities (per 100,000 children)
6
(Estimate) Laird, Siobhan E., 2008; Thompstone, G., 2012
25
(Estimate) Department of Social Welfare 2019, and Office of the Head of Local Government Service 2019.
No. of non-government social service workers with responsibility for child protection per 100,000 children