Section 23: Scope of social work.

(1) The Council shall regulate the scope of practice for social work to include -
(a) interacting with individuals, social groups, and communities for the purposes of interview, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of the social problems affecting them and the provision of social services,
(b) provision of social support to individuals, social groups and communities for the purposes of prevention, remediation, and resolution of social problems affecting them,
(c) development, promotion, provision, delivery, management and evaluation of human service programmes for the prevention, remediation, and resolution of social problems affecting individuals, social groups, and communities,
(d) development of social policies aimed at the resolution of social problems and improving the social conditions of living of individuals, social groups, and communities,
(e) provision of supervision, consultation, administration and evaluation of social services to clients, and
(f) conducting of researches on social problems affecting individuals, social groups, and communities.
(2) The Council shall approve other activities for the Profession.
(3) Agencies to which social work practice in Nigeria may apply include -
(a) social welfare offices;
(b) community mobilisation offices;
(c) youth mobilisation and empowerment centres;
(d) child welfare, orphanage and day care centres;
(e) hospitals (medical social welfare);
(f) court assessors and probations services;
(g) correctional services;
(h) occupational and industrial social welfare;
(i) pilgrims welfare;
(j) rehabilitation (for persons with disabilities, drug addicts, victim of human trafficking, destitutes);
(k) refugees and internally displaced persons;
(l) geriatric services;
(m) conflict resolution and management;
(n) school social work;
(o) educational institutions offering social work programme;
(p) institutions for health insurance, social insurance, pension and gratuity administration and staff welfare;
(q) women development centres;
(r) gender development;
(s) citizens and leadership training centres;
(t) senior citizens centres; and
(u) police, military and paramilitary welfare.