SOCIAL SERVICE CENTERS – NEW ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS IN THE MUNICIPALITY

2021 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XXI) ◽  
pp. 755-765
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Ura
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Definition Of

Social services related to activities aimed at meeting the basic needs of society are an important factor activating local communities. Commune self-governments undertook such projects on the basis of general provisions of the Act on Public Finance and commune self-government. On January 1, 2020, the Act on the provision of social services by social service centers, adopted on July 19, 2019, entered into force, specifying the scope of social services, the method of creating social service centers and their organizational structure. The study presents the basic issues concerning the definition of social services in the doctrine and in the aforementioned Act, and moreover, attention was paid to the method of establishing centers provided for by law: either as new organizational units of the commune or transforming the existing social welfare centers. Tasks in the field of social services were defined as own, non-obligatory tasks, therefore communes were left to assess the need to create such centers. The organizational structure of the center is also briefly presented, with attention being paid to the legal position of the director of the social services center

scholarly journals THE ESSENCE AND FEATURES OF SOCIAL COMMISSIONING IMPLEMENTATION IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-159
Author(s):  
Zhanna Petrochko ◽  
Nataliya Datchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Families With Children

Relevance of the research problematics is proved by the social demand for acceleration of social commissioning implementation in Ukraine so as to respond to the ongoing pandemic COVID-19, armed conflict in Ukraine, long lasting tradition of institutional care  for vulnerable people. The purpose of the article is to reveal the core of social commissioning linked to social work with families with children, to characterize dynamics of its implementation and development in Ukraine. Methods of research: the theoretical analysis of actual scientific sources, rated to the topic, is applied in the research together with desk review of a new international and national legislation. The methods of generalization and systematization were applied for definition of actual interpretation of “social commissioning” and its characteristics. The results of the research are as follows: The social commissioning is determined as an instrument for public regulation in the system of social service provision by means of contracting social service providers for satisfaction of social service needs identified within social service need assessment by entities of local self-government. Research attention is paid to the structure and key elements of social commissioning. Participants (сustomers, recipients and providers of social services), constituents (social character; contracting core and innovation value), and principles of social commissioning (result orientation; awareness; planning; priority to prevention and early intervention; partnership) are covered in the article. The procedural stages of social commissioning are also unpacked in the article (designing; implementation; monitoring and evaluation). Prospects for further research are the studies of barriers to the implementation of social commissioning and ways to overcome them, development and implementation of optimal algorithms for its implementation in a decentralized environment.

The universality of the support and care processes as a task and challenge for the Social Services Centre

2021 ◽  
Vol 600 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Barbara Kromolicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Care Processes ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Activities

The article presents the ongoing change of current social assistance, which is made selectively, i.e., with a focus on supporting and assisting people in a particularly difficult life situation. The change focuses on service activities that ensure universal care and support for all citizens. The legal basis for this change is the Act on the provision of social services by social service centres [pl. Ustawa o realizacji usług społecznych przez centra usług społecznych] of July 19 2019 which enables the creation of social service centres in local communities.

“New new media” in social welfare

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Sergo Kuruliszwili
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Vocational Training ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Desk Research

The article is describing the use of ICT tools in social welfare, equally in area of social work, vocational training for social service and shaping the social policy. Based on the desk research the author explains the basic issues related to the implementation of new media tools into the practice of social work – case studies – and characterizes the potency of digitalization in the process of modelling the social welfare, innovative preventions measures and the improving the qualifications of social services.

Dissemination and Implementation in Social Service Settings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Curtis McMillen ◽  
Danielle R. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
Complex Settings

Social service settings offer numerous complexities in their staffing, consumers, and payer mix that require careful consideration in designing dissemination and implementation efforts. However, social services’ unique access to vulnerable populations with health problems may prove vital in efforts to improve the health status of many of our citizens and reduce health disparities. While a number of well-developed, blended dissemination and implementation models are being used in social service settings, they all require additional documentation, research, and field experience. Nonetheless, the lessons learned in the social services may help organizations in other sectors better implement health interventions with complex consumers in complex settings.

scholarly journals Social Service Centers as Agents of Digital Socialization of Elderly People: on the Example of Organizing Computer Literacy Courses

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Olga Vasilyevna Zayats ◽  
Nadezhda Vladimirovna Osmachko
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Municipal Services ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Older Citizens

The paper reveals the essence and significance of digital socialization of older people, the importance of overcoming social exclusion by older citizens in terms of access to digital technologies. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the role of social service centers for the population, which act as agents of digital socialization of older people (based on the materials of a sociological study). The objects of the study were elderly people receiving social services in the Primorsky Center for Social Services of the Population, and senior citizens who were trained in computer literacy courses. The authors set the fol-lowing tasks: to determine elderly people’s interest in mastering computer literacy and how effective the “Internet ABC” program is. In addition, it was sup-posed to establish the importance of integrated cen-ters of social services for the population in ensuring computer literacy of pensioners. As a result of a sociological study, it was found that older people show a significant interest in modern information technologies. Computer courses organized on the basis of the center for social services help elderly people to get information about state and municipal services, work with the websites of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, the Social Insur-ance Fund, Public Services and Multifunctional Cen-ter.

scholarly journals Social commissioning in the sphere of social services provision

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 113-117
Author(s):  
M.O. Buk
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
State Regional

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the essential hallmarks of social services procurement. The attention is focused on the absence of the unity of the scientists’ thoughts as for the definition of the term “social procurement”. It has been determined that in the foreign scientific literature the scientists to denote the term “social procurement” use the notions “social contracting”, “social order” and “social commissioning”, and they use these notions with slightly different meanings. Therefore, the notion “social procurement” is defined as: 1) activity of a country; 2) form of the state support; 3) complex of measures; 4) legal mechanism. The article has grounded the expediency of the definition of social procurement in the legal relations of social care as a special legal way to influence the behavior of the parties of the social care legal relations. The publication advocates the idea that social procurement is one of the conditions for the rise of the state and private sectors partnership. The state-private partnership in the legal relations regarding the provision of social services is proposed to be defined as cooperation between Ukraine, AR of Crimea, territorial communities represented by the competent state bodies, self-government bodies (authorized bodies in the sphere of social services provision) and legal entities, but for the state and municipal enterprises and establishments, and organizations (providers of social services) regarding the provision of social services, which is carried out on the basis of an agreement and under the procedure set by the Law of Ukraine “On Social Services” and other legal acts that regulate the social care legal relations. The article substantiates the thesis that the subject of the social procurement is social services and resolution of social issues of the state/regional/local levels in the aspect of the satisfaction of the needs of people/families for social services (state/regional/local programs of social services). It has been determined that the main forms of realization of the social procurement in the social care legal relations are public procurements of social services and financing of the state/regional/local programs of social services. The public procurement of social services is carried out under the procedure set by the Law of Ukraine “On  Public Procurement” taking into account the special features determined by the Law of Ukraine “On Social Services”. The social procurement in the form of financing of the state/regional/local programs of social services is decided upon the results of the tender announced by a client according to the plan for realization of the corresponding target program.

scholarly journals Pakiwaitara - social work sense for supervision

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Elkington
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Definition Of

Pakiwaitara (Elkington, 2001) came about as a gap identified in social service delivery between western, middle class, dominant culture and the healing of Māori whānau in crisis. While education has responded to this gap by offering bicultural training, ensuring more Māori components within degree programmes, etc, social services statistics are still high for Māori and indigenous peoples. It has helped to shift the definition of cultural supervision to inside the definition of specialised professional supervision (Elkington, 2014), but now continued invisibility of values and beliefs, particularly that of Tauiwi, exacerbate the problem. The challenge must still be asserted so that same-culture practitioners are strengthened in same-culture social work practice (eg, by Māori, for Māori), and to avoid when possible, or otherwise by choice, white dominant-culture practice, for all-and-every-culture social work practice (eg, by Pākehā, for everyone).

scholarly journals Social Services Administration in Gwagwalada Area Council: Militating Factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irechukwu Eugenia Nkechi ◽  
Chima Paul
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rural Dwellers

This study attempted to determine the factors militating against effective social services administration and its unfolding empirical manifestations on the well-being of the rural dwellers in Gwagwalada Area Council in Abuja, Nigeria as well as its attendant effects on rural development. Based on the data generated from 200 respondents (rural residents and staff of the area council) using questionnaire, interview and personal observation, it was discovered that lack of involvement of the rural dwellers in decisions regarding the design and implementation of the social service programmes by the Council is one of the key factors. The paper recommends accordingly among others, that effective social services administration should reflect the wishes and aspirations of beneficiaries. 

The Quest for Sustainable Livelihoods: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Guangzhou, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka Ho Mok ◽  
Maggie Lau
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Burdens

China's welfare system has been a typical ‘residual welfare regime’, but the economic reform and market-oriented transformations in recent decades have weakened the original well-balanced ‘residual’ and ‘needs’ pattern. Marketisation of social welfare has intensified social inequality as those who are less competitive in the market-oriented economy have encountered tremendous financial burdens in meeting their welfare needs. In order to rectify the social problems and tensions generated from the process of marketisation of social welfare, the Chinese government has adopted different policy measures to address the pressing welfare demands from the citizens. This article examines how a local government in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong province, has responded to the call of the central government in promoting social harmony in the context of growing welfare regionalism emerging in mainland China. More specifically, with reference to a case study of Guangzhou, this article discusses how Guangzhou residents assess their social welfare needs and expectations, and how they evaluate the municipal government's major welfare strategies. It also reflects upon the role of the state in welfare provision and social protection, especially when many social welfare and social services have been marketised in the last few decades in China.

Some Thoughts on the System of Tasks of the Local Autonomies Related to the Organisation of Personal Social Care

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
István Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Short Description ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Societies

In the modern post-industrial societies services are becoming the greatest part of the economy, and through the reallocating role of state – even after the millennium changes – the role of the services organised by the communities is exceptionally high. One of these services is the social care granted by the state and (its parts) the local governments. In my article I summarise the roles of local communities and local governments of some European and non-European states in the organisation of social care. The practical and theoretical legal terms of social assistance and personal social services are presented as well as the general characteristics of models (settlement or regional municipality based) of the organisation of the services. There is also a short description of general financing issues.

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