Social services upheaval
to create N. Shore

Workload shuffle ‘not a shakeup’

Awnajor overhaul in North
Shore social services got

underway Monday. when
workers were transferred
between the North Van-

couver and West Vancouver
branches of the Ministry of
Human Resources.

Regional manager Bill
Macbeth says the move is
“not a shakeup” and is
designed to make the social
services department on the
North Shore
responsive.

The shift in personell was
described by Macbeth “as
the first step in the end of the
process.” which will also
involve changing the
locaton of the. Lonsdale
office and strengthening the
family and children’s ser
vices division

Macbeth said the changes
are part of “a planned
process” and were discussed

more

with social groups on the
North Shore before being
made. :

He said case loads of the
vamous social workers and
other employees with the
department were” re-
examined and in some cases
new workloads
assigned.

There was “a bit of an
imbalance,” in some of the
offices on the North Shore
and the overhaul was done
to correct this, Macbeth
said

“Some offices had a bunch
of super-good people.” he
said, and morale was a factor
in the changes

were

There have been some
complaints about the
changes = and Macbeth

agreed that

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But he said some. staff

members did participate in

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the planning process and the
whole overhaul will be
reviewed in six months to
provide “fine tuning.”

Macbeth said he hoped
the changes would not upset
the chents and he said they
would all be informed in
writing or in person if they
are being assigned a dif-
ferent social worker.

Another major change
scheduled to take place
when Suitable office space is
changing — the
office at 107 West 20th
Street into two seperate
offices, one in upper and the
other in the lower part of
Lensdale.

Another change will be to
have social assistance
workers concentrate on
family and children’s. ser
vices rather than working in
all areas of the department

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