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Under the guidance of the Emir of the late Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and specifically in 12/14/1954 AD, issued a decision of the Supreme Executive Committee under the number (T 41/63) the establishment of the Department of Social Affairs, in pursuit of social welfare for all citizens and provide social services to those who request it, and specifically those with special needs, as well as work on the organization to use the government and private levels, and combat unemployment, and the training of national manpower, and the settlement of labor complaints, next to take over matters relating to guidance and social guidance, through publications and releases periodic, and other the media has spread the social services provided by the department in 1956, to include stalls which were granted free of charge to people with limited income, and the training of girls through the establishment of a specialized center on the appropriate actions, as well as the establishment of social units concerned with the family socially and financially, next to the establishment of a nursing home in in 1957, was added to this circuit functions (social control on the cinema, movies, theater, workbooks), as issued mainstream Amiri entrusted by which to manage a census of the population, and is considered the census of 1957, the first official census of the population in Kuwait, where the number of the population - at that time - about 206 thousand people, and the percentage of Kuwaitis 55% and in 1958, was added to the circuit functions of social and other labor activities, industrial Kaltzlev, and relations between workers and employers, and labor inspection, and rehabilitation professional people with disabilities, and youth care, and supervision of the clubs and NGOs, and adult education this expansion in the area of care and social service, and made ​​the circuit mentioned successes, necessitated in 1960, modifying the naming circle the issuance of the Amiri Decree No. (10/60) by adding the word \"work\" to the circuit name, to become the Department of Social Affairs and Labor and the independence of Kuwait in in June 1961, and the transfer of Kuwaiti society of the emirate stage to state the stage, and the subsequent necessity of evolution in government administration and update them, circles under which moved to the ministries and the Ministry of Social Affairs and one work of these departments that have become the Ministry, in accordance with Emiri decree (2 ) for the year 1962 issued on 17/1/1962 m, to bear the name of the department, \"the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour