Social assistance and social welfare: the legacy of the Poor Law

2018 ◽  
pp. 132-149
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Poor

PELAYANAN PUSAT KESEJAHTERAAN SOSIAL (PUSKESOS) DALAM PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN (Studi di Kelurahan Abeli Dalam Kecamatan Puuwatu Kota Kendari)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Jamaluddin Jamaluddin ◽  
Bahtiar Bahtiar ◽  
Sarmadan Sarmadan
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Welfare And Poverty ◽  
The Right

This study aims to determine the services of social welfare centers (Puskesos) in poverty reduction in Abeli Dalam Village, Puuwatu District, Kendari City. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data collection technique was carried out by means of observation, interviews, and documentation with 13 research informants. 5 people from the implementation team of the social welfare center (Puskesos), and 8 additional informants, 1 TKSK and 7 community members who are beneficiaries of Puskesmas services in Abeli Dalam Village, Puuwatu District, Kendari CityThe results showed that social welfare center services (Puskesos) are located in Abeli Dalam Village government by providing social welfare center services in the program including: Healthy Idonesia Card (KIS), Family Hope Program (PKH), Non-Tunia Food Assistance (BPNT), and Cash Social Assistance (BST). which is carried out by Puskesmas to the poor, namely: 1) making changes in the form of activities, these activities are in the form of socialization. 2) assist in overcoming problems, by providing quality service assistance to poor individuals / families / households must have clear, straightforward, easy to understand and implement procedures. These activities include; receiving complaints, checking the status of potential beneficiaries with data validation and verification processes, complaint handling services according to program needs, in this case the KIS, PKH, BPNT, BST programs, and handling referrals. With 700 KIS recipients, 77 PKH family heads, 137 BPNT family heads, and 6 BST family heads. The number of service recipients for the poor was 174 households out of 202 households. These are found in Puskesmas services as well as the benefits of puskesmas services for the community that can have a good impact on community welfare and poverty reduction, and contribute to the fulfillment of the right to access health services, education, basic food assistance, and cash social assistance can be achieved

From Poor Law to Positive Discrimination

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-328
Author(s):  
Richard Batley
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Positive Discrimination ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Poverty

ABSTRACTThe principle of positive discrimination in favour of the poor has emerged out of a tangled history of social welfare debate about universalism and selectivity. Positive discrimination, based on the idea of ‘inclusive’ selectivity, represents something of a hybrid of the two concepts. The ‘rediscovery of poverty’ and the recognition that universal benefits were not adequate or reaching intended beneficiaries contributed to the general case for specially channelled services. But the government's response has tended to be piecemeal, responding to specific pressures and criticisms with a wide array of small and separate programmes of positive discrimination. This article traces the particular pressures, in race relations, which contributed to the emergence of the Urban Aid Programme and shows what lessons were learned from the experience of the American poverty programmes.

scholarly journals An experiment in banking the poor: the Irish Mont-de-Piété, c. 1830–1850

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eoin McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Base Group

Continental pawnbroking institutions, Monts-de-Piété, were introduced in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s but did not establish a permanent status. Irish social reformers believed that a Mont-de-Piété system would reduce the cost of borrowing for the poor and also fund a social welfare network, thus negating the need for an Irish Poor Law. This article explores the introduction of the Mont-de-Piété charitable pawnbroker in Ireland and outlines some reasons for its failure. It uses the market incumbents, private pawnbrokers, as a base group in a comparative study and asks why the Monts-de-Piété were the unsuccessful ones of the two. The article finds that the public nature and monopoly status of Monts-de-Piété on the Continent realised economies of scale and gave preferential interest rates on capital, as well as enabling the Mont-de-Piété loan book to be cross-subsidised. These conditions were not replicated in Ireland, hence the failure of the Monts-de-Piété there.

Workhouse Populations of the Preston Union, 1841–61

2014 ◽  
pp. 33-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Darwen
Keyword(s):  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Fertile Ground

The census enumerators' books (CEBs) have provided fertile ground for studies of workhouse populations in recent years, though it has been acknowledged that work remains to be done on different regions and periods to develop our understanding of these institutions and the paupers who resided therein. This article will examine the indoor pauper populations of the Preston union, in Lancashire, over three census years from 1841. The region, which is notable for a protracted campaign of resistance to the New Poor Law and its associated workhouse system, has been previously neglected in studies of workhouse populations focusing on the decades immediately after the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. It will be shown that the profile of the union's workhouse populations broadly mirrors those found elsewhere at the aggregate level, but that important variations reflected local and central policy. A high concentration of able-bodied paupers—in particular—seems to indicate ideas governing local policy which were not carried out elsewhere.

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