This article focuses on the need for supervision in social work agencies and examines some of the functional components of supervision. Secondly, the article also examines social work supervision in Botswana and it is observed that effective supervision is hampered by a variety of constraints which include heavy work loads and lack of facilities and qualified supervisors. While supervision is not unique to social work, it has however, special importance in social work because of the nature of the problems the profession addresses. This article therefore sees supervision as a useful mechanisam for safeguarding the rights of clients, social workers and social work agencies.
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