What is the difference and relationship between community workers at the grass-roots level and social workers at the front-line level, who are often involved in day-to-day work with the key words community, neighbourhood councils and street offices
There are four main differences between the community, the neighbourhood and the street:
First, it is different in nature。
A community is a community of social life formed by people concentrated in a geographical area, divided into urban and rural communities. The current range of urban communities generally refers to the district of the resident council, which has been resized as a result of the reform of the community system. In short, the community is not an administrative body, but a grass-roots living group, a geographical area。
The neighborhood council, known as the “community residents council”, is a grass-roots, mass self-government organization for self-management, self-education and self-service。
The street office, also known as the street office, is the local grass-roots government's urban dispatch, led and commissioned by the local government, and is the management of the district streets at the commune level。
Second, there are different levels。
Street offices are the administrative bodies at the commune level, usually in the larger cities, where there are many communities, communities and villages at the same level, and many communities and villages form one township (council). Neighborhood committees may be established in the districts of the street offices, and there may be several residential committees in a large community, and the management of a residential council may extend beyond a community。
Third, the composition is different。
The composition of the community mainly refers to the inhabitants and the households within the community。
The resident council consists of five to nine directors, deputy directors and members。
The street office will be headed by a director, who, depending on the volume of the work and the size of the jurisdiction, will be staffed by officers and, if necessary, a deputy director。
Fourthly, the scope of competence is also different。
The community is a geographical concept, a social concept, and we do not discuss the scope of its functions。
As a grass-roots mass self-government organization, the resident council is responsible for disseminating information on national legal policies, defending the legitimate rights and interests of the population, educating the population in its obligations under the law to carry out various forms of socialist spiritual civilization-building activities, managing the public affairs and public goods of the inhabitants of the community, mediating disputes among the population, assisting in the maintenance of public order and assisting the people's government or its sending organs in their work, and reflecting the views, demands and recommendations of the population to the people's government or its sending organs。
The street office, which is a government agency, under the leadership of the street party labour committee, exercises administrative responsibility for the administration of the territory, in accordance with laws and regulations, and is responsible for the performance of the tasks assigned to it by the district government. In addition, guidance, support and assistance for the work of the resident committees are provided。
In sum, the community is a territorial area, the neighbourhood council is a mass self-governing organization and the street office is a government dispatch. The neighbourhood councils provide guidance to the neighbourhood committees, which assist them in their work and work together at the grass-roots level, in their respective roles and in the service of one people。
