{"id":2798,"date":"2026-05-18T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:48:27","slug":"services-provided-by-the-department-of-social-welfareand-community-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/services-provided-by-the-department-of-social-welfareand-community-development\/","title":{"rendered":"SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE<br>AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SOCIAL WELFARE UNIT<br><\/strong>1. Child Non-maintenance cases<br>2. Child Custody \/ Access cases<br>3. Family Welfare cases<br>4. Missing\/abandoned\/abused\/trafficked children<br>5. Inspection of Early Childhood Development  Centres (Daycare Centres)<br>6. Supervision of Children\u2019s Residential Homes<br>7. Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty<br>8. Persons with Disability (PWDs)<br>9. Medical Social Work<br>10. Justice Administration (Family Tribunal\/ Juvenile Court)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT UNIT<\/strong><br>1. Community Education<br>2. Skills Development and Livelihood<br>3. Community Mobilization<br>4. Community Based Child Protection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>HOTLINE FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>053 307 3589<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>social.welfare@ashma.gov.gh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>comm.development@ashma.gov.gh<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL WELFARE UNIT1. Child Non-maintenance cases2. Child Custody \/ Access cases3. Family Welfare cases4. Missing\/abandoned\/abused\/trafficked children5. Inspection of Early Childhood Development Centres (Daycare Centres)6. Supervision of Children\u2019s Residential Homes7. Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty8. Persons with Disability (PWDs)9. Medical Social Work10. Justice Administration (Family Tribunal\/ Juvenile Court) COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT UNIT1. Community Education2. Skills Development and Livelihood3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ashma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}