Local self-management, in its contemporary meaning, arose in the time modern
state was created, at the transition from feudalism into capitalism. In the
nineteenth and twentieth century, local self-management, in Europe above
all, became a part of the uniform system of state government which had the
following characteristics: the existence of proper territories,
organizational independence of local institutions, the existence of certain
financial and normative independence and the rights of citizens to freely
choose in it a representative body or to directly decide on important
matters of interest for the local community. The development of local
self-management in our country has its roots as early as the Turkish rule,
in the existence of principalities, at the end of the eighteenth century. In
modern times, by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia from 1990, a
single-level local self-management was established and within it special
decisions for cities. The district is the basic unit of local
self-management in Serbia which has two kinds of jurisdiction:
self-management or authentic and transferred or decentralized. The system of
social care of children, by which certain goals of social and population
policy of the state are achieved, recognizes two kinds of affairs which
local self-management can carry out: authentic and entrusted. Authentic
affairs refer to the institutions for children - preschool institutions and
children?s recreation centers over which local self-management has all
foundation rights. Entrusted affairs of local self-management are making
decisions, in the first degree, on the rights of citizens which has the
characteristic of rights of general interest. In the carrying out of its
authentic and entrusted affairs and authorities, local self-management takes
into consideration, through the Law on social care of children and sublaw
acts, the regulated norms and standards for carrying out the activities of
children?s institutions and realizing the rights of citizens. Apart from
authentic and entrusted affairs, local self-management has the right,
according to the Law on social care of children, to determine other rights
as well in the system of social care of children, a greater scope of rights
and more favorable terms for realization of rights, as well as other forms
of social care of children, if it provides the funds. However, this
supposition can hardly be realized, due to insufficiency of funds as well as
adequate organization and competent expert work.
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