scholarly journals Foster Care Reform and Social Partnership in Nizhny Novgorod Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-394
Author(s):  
Jouko Nikula ◽  
Nina Ivashinenko
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Sociology Department ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
State Actors

  Jouko Nikula – PhD, Senior Researcher, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Email: [email protected] Nina Ivashinenko – Doktor Nauk in Economics, Professor, Head of Economic Sociology Department, Lobachevsky State University of N. Novgorod, Head of UNN-ISESP RAS Laboratory. Russian Federation. Email: [email protected]   This article discusses on-going foster care reform in Russia and analyses possibilities for the evolution of partnerships between stakeholders. The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the realisation of programmes related to child welfare reform is considered, revealing that social partnership is a form of collaborative action. In other words, drawing on the work of Sandra Waddock, social partnership involves interactions performed by various actors to achieve common goals. The main characteristics of social partnerships are that they are specialised, voluntary and collaborative, and their main goal is to try to solve a common problem. However, not all cooperation between public authorities, NGOs and business is a partnership; in fact a successful partnership is characterised by a variety of features. These include mutual trust, complementary strengths, reciprocal accountability, joint decision-making, clearly articulated goals, equitable distribution of costs and benefits, performance indicators, as well as mechanisms to measure and monitor performance and a clear delineation of responsibilities. The role of non-state actors is increasing in welfare and other social services due to adverse demographic trends and the diminishing economic base available to the state for delivering social services. The state’s efforts to dismantle the former state-centred system of welfare has also resulted in the outsourcing of welfare responsibilities and services in child welfare to non-state actors. Alongside their growing role, many new questions have been raised about the quality of the NGOs’ activities and their skills. Therefore, the expansion of NGOs’ social functions potentially generates both opportunities and risks in the transformation of child welfare. Even if there are some green shoots of partnership between the public authorities and NGOs in this field, their relationship is not reciprocal. We argue that Russian NGOs need to improve their social status and the quality of their work to allow them to have their own voice when negotiating their relationship with different state actors.

ROLE OF THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ORGANIZATION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 793-795
Author(s):  
James S. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State Department ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Protective Service ◽  
Child Welfare League ◽  
Abused And Neglected Children

A Review of recent literature and press pronouncements has no doubt left many confused about what degree of concern should be channeled into the problem of the abused child. Part of the confusion results from a tendency to resort to the numbers game in trying to highlight the critical child welfare problems that face this nation, state, and city. Rather than wonder which numbers to believe, or whether physical and emotional battering of children is increasing, I think that the abuse and neglect of children in New York City is of such significant proportions as to justify our dedicated concern. For some years there has been a specialized approach to the problems of the neglected and abused child. This specialized approach has been termed child protective services. It has been developed in response to the problems of abused and neglected children, which the community feels must be looked into and treated. The Child Welfare League defines protective service as "A specialized child welfare service which carries a delegated responsibility to offer help on behalf of any child considered or found to be neglected." The New York State Department of Social Services defines protective services as "Those provided to children living in their own homes who are seriously neglected, abused, or subjected to demoralizing circumstances by their parents or others responsible for their care." Child protective service is not a new service. It has a very illustrious history that really started in this city, back in the late 1800s, through the development of the Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Children.

The roles of friends and neighbours in providing support for older people

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW NOCON ◽  
MAGGIE PEARSON
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Frail Older People ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The People ◽  
Direct Support ◽  
Published Research

Most published research on informal care for older people focuses on the support provided by relatives. The role of non-kin carers can, however, also be significant in supporting older people in their own homes. In this paper, we report the findings from an exploratory study of the support provided by friends and neighbours who are the main carers of frail older people. It draws on interviews with an opportunistic sample of friends, neighbours and older people, which explored their views about the support arrangements, the reasons why help was provided and any difficulties experienced. Several friends and neighbours provided intensive and frequent help, and some played a key role in co-ordinating other services. One of the main forms of direct support related to older people's quality of life, at a broader level than the practical help provided by statutory services. The flexibility of such support, and the friends' and neighbours' concern for older people as individuals, were particularly important to the people they helped. Nevertheless, such help was not provided without costs to the carers. The study highlights the need for policy-makers and practitioners not to take help from friends and neighbours for granted and, in line with the White Paper Modernising Social Services, to provide the support services they need.

Court practice in the mechanism of legal monitoring

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Glazkova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Business Structures ◽  
Normative Foundations ◽  
Local Levels

The manual discusses the role of judicial practice in the implementation of the mechanism of legal monitoring on the Federal, regional and local levels. It justifies significance of judicial practice as an integral part of the legal monitoring, since it is the judiciary, which is constant- Janno being at the turn of sometimes conflicting interests to have the most complete information about the quality of legislation. Describes the theoretical and normative foundations of legal monitoring, its organization and influence on the development of procedural law and the legal system. Special attention given the anti-corruption monitoring. The work is aimed at resolving issues of implementation of legal monitoring in the activities of public authorities, business-structures, public organizations and other civil society institutions in order to make informed proposals on optimization of the Russian legislation. For deputies, employees of state and municipal authorities, representatives of civil society institutions, scientific workers, teachers, postgraduates and students of law universities and faculties.

scholarly journals Information Openness and Accessibility as a Direction of Social Marketing (by the Example of Social Service Institutions)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Nefedieva ◽  
Anastasia Gulyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Internet Technologies

The article deals with the issue of ensuring and monitoring the quality of social services and the role of such an instrument of social marketing and advertising as informing the population with the help of Internet technologies. The article reveals the necessity of existence and obligatory requirements to the content of the websites of the state social organizations. The article states the functions of the sites in terms of informing recipients of social services about the activities of organizations, the opportunities and services they provide, the establishment of feedback. The article reveals the essence and purpose of an independent assessment of the quality of social service institutions, a list of its criteria. The characteristic of indicators within one criterion of an independent quality assessment - openness and availability of information on the organization - is given. The authors analyzed the legal framework for the formation and conduct of an independent quality assessment in the system of social service institutions. The article describes the results of the content analysis of the content of the websites of institutions of social service of the Irkutsk region in terms of their information transparency, completeness and accessibility for recipients of social services. The authors consider the role of the websites and the way the information is arranged on them while forming the policy to improve the quality of social services to different categories of citizens. The level of compliance with the requirements for all indicators of information openness and accessibility of social services institutions of different types is analyzed. The degree of representation of information on the websites in terms of individual indicators is stated, as well as parameters of full disclosure of information with maximum and minimum values are identified. The difference of requirements to transparency and availability of information, their relevance to various types of institutions are revealed. The differentiation of information openness and accessibility depending on the type of social service institution, the legal status of the institution, the service audience are identified. The role of Internet technologies, requirements to information openness and accessibility for the implementation of social advertising and the development of social commitment by institutions of social services are outlined.

scholarly journals INTERNAL STATE (MUNICIPAL) FINANCIAL CONTROL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORMATION OF THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE

2018 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
U. Yu. Roshchektaeva ◽  
S. A. Roshchektaev
Keyword(s):  
Large Range ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Financial Control ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Global Financial System

Аt present, the issues of the formation of the institutional structure of financial security are among the strategic priorities of state policy, which indicates the consensus achieved in the society on the significant role of Russia in the global financial system. One of the priority activities of the Russian state is to optimize the structure of public authorities in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their activities. Particular attention in this process is given to the reform of the system of state financial control. In the modern economy there is a large range of problems and inaccuracies in the legislative regulation of financial control by public authorities. This situation leads to a significant reduction in the quality of the effectiveness of financial control by public authorities. In this regard, there is a need to study and clarify the role, function and place of bodies exercising state (municipal) control in the institutional structure, determine the importance of the participation of such bodies in the process of rational use of budgetary funds, in the formation and justification of methods and methodology for monitoring the effectiveness of planning and spending of budgetary funds, as well as measures to prevent violations of legislation in the budgetary sphere.

scholarly journals Specifics of organising supplementary education in rural areas

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Lyudmila V. Bayborodova ◽  
Tat'yana V. Lushnikova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Children ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Role Of Parents

The article presents the factors that help to improve the accessibility and quality of supplementary education of rural schoolchildren, defines the objectives of supplementary education and describes the pedagogic means of solving the most topical problems. Special attention is paid to the ways of satisfying individual interests and wants of children, to the analysis of the results of supplementary education of rural children, to the usage of the rural community resources and to the social partnership development. The article shows the social environment potential and social partnership resources in creating the supplementary education municipal network. The authors suggest the variants of the interaction of the school with other rural subjects, the content and forms of participation of the organisations and local people in children's supplementary education (CSE). The article emphasises the role of parents (legal representatives) in the CSE, proposes the ways of informing parents of supplementary education and their involvement in organising the CSE.

scholarly journals The Foster Family Process to Maintain the Will to Remain in Foster Care—Implications for a Sustainable Programme

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 7942
Author(s):  
Elisete Diogo ◽  
Francisco Branco
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
Foster Families ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Will

There were 7032 children in out-of-home care in 2018 in Portugal. Of these, only 2.8% were in foster care, despite this being the recommended response according to legal regulations. It is critical that more families be encouraged to become foster carers and also that experienced carers stay in the system to create a sustainable programme. How is the will to foster a child maintained? What can we learn from foster families’ experiences to improve childcare and the child protection system? The methodology of this study was based on interviews with foster carers. The analysis was inspired by grounded theory. We found three types of foster families, classified according to their will to leave or remain in foster care—unconditional, hesitant, or retired. The results suggest that the key elements for foster carers to remain in the foster care system are (i) their level of satisfaction with how the previous placement concluded, (ii) keeping in touch with the ex-foster child, (iii) the feeling of acknowledgement by all the stakeholders, and (iv) the quality of social services as well as the support of the professional teams.

Maximizing the Role of Digital Social Innovation in Building the Future of Social Protection Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurelio Fernández López
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Social Protection Systems

Social protection systems are in a major process of transformation. Solutions from the past are no longer valid, or at least valid without important adaptations, to address future adequacy, sustainability, and quality of social protections systems. Ageing, changes in the world of work and in the evolving aspirations of citizens will impact, even more than today, on the features of the welfare of the future. Supporting a social investment approach in the agenda of modernization to be pursued, which recognize the relevant role to be played by social innovation, will be a key aspect of the reforms that are needed. ICTs would help in ensuring cost effective services, reducing fragmentation, and favouring integrated social services. This will be, no doubt, a multi-faceted and complex process, but there are choices that can make a difference in maximizing the potential that ICT, s can bring: An adequate leading role of public authorities and institutions at different territorial levels; a full involvement of all relevant stakeholders in a framework of reinforced and changing relationships; and a strategic outcome-based approach, supported by evidence-outcomes will contribute to unleash this potential. This article analyses, based on relevant successful experiences, some of the major interactions involved in the development and translation of enabling-ICTs to the fulfilment of social policy objectives.

The Productive Role of ‘Quality of Place’: A Case Study of Fashion Designers in Toronto

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 2900-2917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Leslie ◽  
Shauna Brail
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
Quality Of Place ◽  
Productive Function ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
Fashion Designers

Within the urban economic development literature, there has been considerable debate concerning the role of ‘quality of place’ in attracting and retaining talent. Arguments have been polarized, however, between those suggesting that quality of place plays a key role in urban growth, and those arguing that jobs and production networks are more important. In this paper we reconcile the debates by emphasizing the productive function of quality of place. Drawing on a case study of fashion designers in Toronto, we examine the roles of diversity, tolerance, social services, and cultural dynamism in attracting and retaining talent, in fostering aesthetic experimentation, and in mediating some of the risks associated with cultural work.

scholarly journals MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS WHEN PROVIDING STATE AND MUNICIPAL SERVICES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
A. V. Demin ◽  
I. V. Rybalchenko ◽  
I. V. Milkina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Universal System ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Business Entities

The subject of the study is administrative barriers in the provision of public services to individuals and business entities in the Russian Federation. The article proposes methods of analysis of the quality of providing public and municipal services to the population and economic entities. The paper investigates the degree of openness of public authorities. The authors propose a systematic approach to the study of the causes and conditions of administrative barriers, as well as an effective universal system of measures designed to eliminate such barriers and improve the quality of the state’s response to public requests. The paper studied methods of combating administrative barriers in a practical application with the establishment of the main techniques and methods of public administration, the methodology for eliminating administrative barriers. The authors analyze the role of self-regulation, professional communities and social networks in removing administrative barriers.

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