This paper analyses the status of digital enhanced child protection within the context of social work practice in Zimbabwe. It critically reflects how digital child protection services have impacted social work practice. The paper presents key digital child protection services that are provided to children, such as telephone counselling, online counselling and digital case management, focusing mainly on child protection cases such as birth registration, abuse and access to justice. In providing these services, digitalisation in social work child protection services is affected by the absence of national framework on digital guidelines, difficulty in implementing core social work ethics, connectivity and digital gargets ownership. Finally, the paper shows that the current state of digitalisation has implications on social work ethics, social welfare policy and social work education and training.
