The aim of this study was to get a greater comprehension of social welfare secretaries’ notion of "good parenting" and furthermore how this is expressed in evaluations of investigations regarding care of children. The empirics in this qualitative study were collected with the help of a vignette containing relevant questions. Moreover interview questions were answered at seven occasions. The interviewees were social welfare secretaries that worked with evaluations of care of children. The theoretical approach in the study was Yeheskel Hasenfelds theory on human service organizations along with grassroots bureaucracy that Roine Johansson’s translated and interpreted based on Michael Lipsky’s theory on street-level- bureaucracy. The result showed that good parenting according to social welfare secretaries is based on moral values that are reflected in society. In regards to how social welfare secretaries manage their room for action it is done differently in the context of freedom and limitations of the work involved.

In each society there was and will be a certain number of children whose parents are incapable, or unwilling to take care of them. In Lithuania 16 thousand children are complete orphans or have lost the care of parents and live in institutions of children’s care. The upbringing of a child under the ward ship is one of the most complicated problems of a child’s care, in which both - theoretical know-how and human intuition form an integral complex. The aim of the pedagogical team of children’s care institutions is to establish families to children without family as well as help them create their own future and form their communities. Lithuanian society undergoes the period of changes with typical volatility in political, economical and social tendencies. The spirit of changes does not leave aside the organizing of children’s care in state and non-governmental children’s care institutions. Institutions rendering this type of services face high-level requirements, therefore it is feasible to train tutors and teachers for team-work. The specificity of care (ward ship) and the structural specifications of the pedagogical team of children’s care institutions is the urgent object of social research. In Lithuania this type of scientific research has been absent. The problem of the Research: structure and functioning of the pedagogical team of children‘s care institutions. The aim of the research: to evaluate and present the specific structural features and functioning of the... [to full text]