The thesis aims to map the social housing system in Prague and to contribute to evaluating effectiveness of the policy. The study analyses 15 city districts of Prague, focusing on the conditions and process for selection of tenants. Currently, social housing is not regulated by law and therefore city districts are legally autonomous in decision making. The thesis is explorative, and studies policy documentation (primarily policy of city districts dealing with management stock of dwellings). I then carried out semi-structured interviews with actors of social housing (social services users, social workers of shelter services and officials of city districts). The study pursues a deeper understanding of issues connected with housing needs and the role of social housing as a solution to housing problems, as well as barriers which limit the related process of securing housing. There are two groups of condition (general and specific) which city districts use to regulate social housing. General conditions comprise citizenship, permanent residence, non-ownership of residential property, non-participation in privatization, non-existence of debts to the city (or repayment) and income limits or condition for receiving social benefits. Next, city districts regulate renting a flat by specific conditions, for...

We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows developed in the framework of the WWWforEUROPE project, we inform the policy discussion concerning the role of demographic change, inequality dynamics, labour market integration of migrants and the sustainability of public finances in the continent. / Series: WWWforEurope

En förändring i det svenska välfärdssystemet har pågått sedan 1990-talet, ett årtionde som i många fall anses vara en brytpunkt för den svenska välfärden. De kommande decennierna efter 1990-talet har kännetecknats av ett välfärdssystem som har blivit allt mer nermonterat. En stark utveckling av arbetslinjen (workfare) har ersatt den välkända svenska välfärdsmodellen. I dagens välfärdssystem har tidigare studier en enad bild om hur individer i utsatthet och fattigdom tenderar att falla mellan skyddsnätet och hamnar allt längre ifrån samhället. Baserat på sju semistrukturerade intervjuer med personal på ekonomiskt bistånd inom socialtjänsten och med personal från stadsmissionen visar resultatet på en ökad ojämlikhet i samhället, där individer i utsatthet får en allt mer komplex problematik. De krav som ställs på de allra mest utsatta är för höga och inte alltid möjliga att genomföra. Samhället har svårt att nå individerna på deras behovsnivå och när offentlig sektor misslyckas får den tredje sektorn så som stadsmissionerna ta över. En studie som berör hur det strukturella blir individuellt och hur individer på flera olika sätt faller mellan stolarna och hamnar hos stadsmissionens verksamheter. / A change in the Swedish welfare system has been going on since the 1990s, a year that in many cases is seen as a breakpoint for the Swedish welfare. The coming decades after the 1990s have been characterized by a welfare system that has been increasingly dismantled and a strong development of the workfare has replaced the well-known Swedish welfare. In today's welfare system, previous studies have a united picture of how individuals in vulnerability and poverty tend to fall between the safety net and end up increasingly further from society. Increased inequality is described in the study and the demands placed on the most vulnerable are too high for them to be able to see the ones that are possible to implement. It is difficult for society to reach the individuals at their level and when the public sector fails, the third sector such as Non-profit organizations take over. A study that deals with how the structural becomes individual and how individuals ends up with Non-profit organizations when the public sector fails.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:44:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5458.pdf: 1104732 bytes, checksum: 5204343ec8b17082b283ab847f0514fd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-29 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The 1988 Brazilian Constitution introduces social welfare as a social security policy and a citizen s right. This way the promulgation of the Organic Law of Social Welfare in 1993 and the creation of a decentralized public system led to the approval of the Social Welfare National Policy (SWNP), whose management is undertaken by the Unified Social Welfare System (USWS). The National Counsil of Welfare, supported by the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation (MSD), proposed the debate process for the definition of Social Welfare workers (DPDSWW) and also to help on the definition of the teams that would become responsible for organizing and providing social assistance services. Occupational therapists and other professional groups were included in this process; in the outcome occupation therapy was ratified as an integral part of the USWS. This study aims to contribute to the debate on occupational therapy in USWS by describing mobilizations and arguments for the recognition of its contribution and importance in this context, during the participation of the professional group in the DPDSWW. This is a study which took form with the data collected in the documentary research on the regulatory frameworks of SWNP and USWS, and also with correspondences taken from the online discussion forum of National Workgroup on Occupational Social Therapy (GNTOSOCIAL, in Portuguese) which is organized and coordinated by the Brazilian Association of Occupational Therapists (ABRATO, in Portuguese). Interviews (with three of the protagonists) and questionnaires (performed with nine occupational therapists from GNTOSOCIAL) complemented this data. We were able to identify which occupational therapists and institutions have participated in DPDSWW and how they have worked. We verified that ABRATO organized associations, the METUIA Project, occupational therapists and teachers around the GNTOSOCIAL discussion forum. A national movement was constructed from this list for the participation of the professional group in DPDSWW. This group faced constraints on being present in all regions and participating in debates, seeking consensus and earning new subscriptions to their cause. GNTOSOCIAL s participation was crucial for the outcome of the DPDSWW, as acting foundations for occupational therapists in social warfare were brought to debate. We found that new challenges are being faced by occupational therapists after DPDSWW. However, the modification of curricular guidelines seems urgent, as it should emphasize subjects regarding social occupational therapy and ensure students gain experience from the social welfare network, with qualified tutors in the social field. Research and postgraduate training are important for social occupational therapy when it comes to individuals skill development, their own knowledge and services, which are offered by several social policies. / A Constituição de 1988 introduz a assistência social como política de seguridade social e direito do cidadão. Dessa forma, a promulgação da Lei Orgânica da Assistência Social em 1993 e a construção de um sistema público descentralizado culminaram com a aprovação da Política Nacional de Assistência Social PNAS, cuja gestão se faz pelo Sistema Único de Assistência Social-SUAS. Nesse contexto, para subsidiá-lo na definição das profissões a integrar equipes responsáveis pela organização e prestação dos serviços socioassistenciais, o Conselho Nacional de Assistência Social CNAS, com apoio do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate a Fome MDS, realizou o processo de debates para definição dos trabalhadores da assistência social PDDTAS. Terapeutas ocupacionais e demais categorias profissionais participaram deste processo, e, em seu desfecho, a terapia ocupacional foi ratificada integrando os recursos humanos do SUAS. Este estudo objetiva contribuir para o debate sobre a terapia ocupacional no SUAS, descrevendo mobilizações e argumentos para o reconhecimento de sua contribuição e importância nesse âmbito, durante a participação da categoria no PDDTAS. Os dados foram construídos através de pesquisa documental sobre marcos normativos da PNAS e do SUAS e das correspondências da Lista de Discussão online do Grupo de Trabalho Nacional em Terapia Ocupacional Social GNTOSOCIAL (organizado e coordenado pela Associação Brasileira de Terapeutas Ocupacionais ABRATO). Entrevistas com três dos protagonistas do processo e questionários realizados com nove terapeutas ocupacionais do GNTOSOCIAL complementaram esses dados. Identificamos quais terapeutas ocupacionais e instituições participaram do PDDTAS e como atuaram. Verificamos que a ABRATO organizou associações, o Projeto METUIA, terapeutas ocupacionais e docentes em torno da lista de discussão online do GNTOSOCIAL. Através desta lista, construiu-se um movimento nacional para a participação da categoria na PDDTAS. O grupo enfrentou limitações para estar presente em todas as regiões e participar dos debates, buscando consensos e conquistando adesões ao seu pleito. A participação do GNTOSOCIAL foi decisiva para o desfecho do PDDTAS, pois fundamentos da atuação do terapeuta ocupacional no campo social foram postos em debate. Verificou-se que novos desafios vêm sendo enfrentados pelos terapeutas ocupacionais após o PDDTAS. No entanto, parece urgente modificarem-se diretrizes curriculares, enfatizando-se disciplinas da terapia ocupacional social e garantindo-se aos estudantes a experiência na rede socioassistencial, com preceptores qualificados no campo social. São importantes a pesquisa e a formação na pós-graduação na terapia ocupacional social, para o desenvolvimento de competências, conhecimentos e serviços próprios, prestados nas diversas políticas sociais.

The origin, development and working of the welfare system at the Company of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway in the period 1836-1907 The objective of this thesis is The origin, development and working of the welfare system at the Company of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway in the period 1836-1907. The research is focused on the origin and working of the Retirement Fund, the Sickness Fund from 1874, Sickness Fund from 1888 and the Childrens' shelter of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway Company. The method of this research was the archival sources, printed sources and literature collection and analysis and then comparison the origin, development and working of Social Security systems at state railways, state administration, members of Habsburg monarchy armed forces and also at other private railway companies in the period of 1836 - 1907. The sources confirm that the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway provided some employees, their widows and orphans with comprehensive care of pension, sickness security and partly also accident insurance through its funds. The company also offered childrens' shelter service, that provided children and orphans with free of charge upbringing and education with the view to preparing them to work for the Northern Railway. The company was not the only that...

La Fédération Française des Éclaireuses est le premier mouvement du scoutisme féminin en France, créée en 1921 et dissoute en 1964. Notre recherche s’emploie à retracer l'histoire de ce mouvement associatif atypique qui regroupe des membres interconfessionnels protestants, catholiques, juifs et laïques, sous l’angle du pluralisme socioculturel, ce qui était rare par rapport à d’autres mouvements de jeunesse de l’époque. La spécificité du mouvement du scoutisme tient également à sa méthode éducative, forgée sur l’enfant et l’adolescent par son fondateur, Robert Baden-Powell. Nous commencerons par étudier le début du scoutisme en Grande Bretagne et son adaptation en France dans la première décennie du XXe siècle, puis la fondation de la FFE, et sa dissolution vers la reconstruction des mouvements scouts mixtes jusqu'en 1970. / The French Girl Guides Federation, Éclaireuses (FFE), founded in 1921 and disbanded in 1964, is the first Girl Guiding Movement in France. The present focus is to retrace the history of this movement, since the start of the scout movement in Great Britain, which was introduced to France in the first decade of the 20th century, through the development under the form of an association, which brought to gather the members from various about social culture and religion: Protestants, Roman Catholics, Jews and non-religious peoples, etc. We analyse their difficulties to cooperating each other, their decision for break-up in 1964, which resulting in the recreation of a mixed scouts movements until 1970.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-22T17:26:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 resumof.pdf: 30646 bytes, checksum: e0a0b378bf294ddb1c8861a1ed9d7975 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-19 / This paper presents the results of an evaluative study on the socio-educational actions carried out in Apoio Socioeducativo em Meio Aberto (Socio-Environmental Support Open Meeting - ASEMA) Castilhos, using as parameter the National Grading Services Socioassistenciais. It starts with a theoretical approach to the ASEMA as a service of socioassistencial Sistema Único de Assistência Social (Integrated Social Welfare Sistem SUAS), highlighting his transition to the Coexistence Service and Strengthening Linkages the realization of research due to the inclusion of professional research associate inquiries about the results actually produced by this type of service socioassistencial privileged the case study, from a qualitative approach in the critical-dialectical approach, using tools such as participant observation and semi-structured interviews with parents or guardians and children and adolescents by ASEMA Castilhos. The central question of this study is as follows: From the new parameters set by the National Grading Services Socioassistenciais, what the results are operated with the social and educational initiatives undertaken ASEMA Castilhos in children and adolescents and their nuclear families? The evaluation of the actions developed shows that ASEMA is a space for socialization, learning and protection of children and adolescents, as well as contributing to some aspects to improve the quality of life of users and their nuclear families. However, it was observed that the requirement to attend the service imposed on users linked to the Program to Eradicate Child Labor and the loss given by the regular education public school system are negative aspects that permeate the activities of ASEMA. This assessment also pointed to the need for some changes and the adequacy of service to the new guidelines of the SUAS, and be referenced to the Reference Center for Social Assistance, strengthening of networking and intersectoral and systematic monitoring and evaluation of socio-educational development / O presente trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa avaliativa sobre as ações socioeducativas desenvolvidas no Apoio Socioeducativo em Meio Aberto (ASEMA) Castilhos, usando como parâmetro a Tipificação Nacional de Serviços Socioassistenciais. Inicia com uma abordagem teórica sobre o ASEMA, como um serviço socioassistencial do Sistema Único de Assistência Social (SUAS), destacando a sua transição para o Serviço de Convivência e Fortalecimento de Vínculos (SCFV). A realização da pesquisa decorrente da inserção profissional da pesquisadora associada aos questionamentos sobre os resultados efetivamente produzidos por este tipo de serviço socioassistencial, privilegiou o estudo de caso, a partir de uma abordagem qualitativa dentro do enfoque dialético-crítico, usando como instrumentos a observação participante e entrevistas semiestruturadas com os pais ou responsáveis e com as crianças e adolescentes atendidos pelo ASEMA Castilhos. A questão central do estudo é a seguinte: A partir dos novos parâmetros estabelecidos pela Tipificação Nacional de Serviços Socioassistenciais, quais são os resultados operados com as ações socioeducativas desenvolvidas no ASEMA Castilhos nas crianças e adolescentes atendidos e em seus núcleos familiares? A avaliação das ações desenvolvidas evidencia que o ASEMA é um espaço de socialização, aprendizagem e proteção a crianças e adolescentes, além de contribuir com alguns aspectos para a melhoria da qualidade de vida dos usuários e de seus núcleos familiares. No entanto, observou-se que a obrigatoriedade em frequentar o Serviço imposta aos usuários vinculados ao Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil (PETI), bem como a deficitária educação regular ministrada pelo sistema público de ensino são aspectos negativos que permeiam as atividades do ASEMA. Esta avaliação, ainda, apontou para a necessidade de algumas mudanças e da adequação do Serviço às novas diretrizes do SUAS, como ser referenciado ao Centro de Referência da Assistência Social (CRAS), fortalecimento do trabalho em rede e da intersetorialidade e avaliação e monitoramento sistemáticos das ações socioeducativas desenvolvidas

In this study, the researchers explored child welfare workers’ perceptions on placement changes for youth in foster care and the impact these changes had on youths’ overall outcomes. Using a Post Positivist paradigm, qualitative research was completed using snowball-sampling procedures. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with sixteen members from their personal networks of child welfare social workers that have direct contact with foster youth. The research participants included current child welfare social workers from two counties in Southern California. The study’s findings suggest that children’s behaviors and foster parents’ reactions to those behaviors impacted placement changes. Further, participants felt that these changes significantly impacted youths’ educational outcomes. Participants identified a variety of interventions they used to try to mitigate placement changes, some with more or less success. Finally, workers identified barriers within the child welfare system, including communications and compensation, that might have an impact on placement changes. Implications for social work practice, policy and research are discussed.

En 1944, le Conseil national de la Résistance décide de reconstruire un Etat social dans la continuité du Front populaire, avant que le second conflit ne l’interrompe. Les syndicats ouvriers réunifiés dans la CGT (sauf la CFTC) décident de soutenir ce programme. Les syndicats de fonctionnaires de Seine-Maritime s’organisent pour participer à cette reconstruction qu’ils attendaient. Quels sont leurs revendications ? Sur quoi s’appuient-ils pour les mettre en avant ? Quels sont les valeurs qu’ils défendent ? Attendent-ils tout de l’Etat social ? Quelle est leur conception de cet Etat social ? Enfin, quels moyens utilisent-ils pour le défendre et le faire progresser ? Obtenant la reconnaissance de leur liberté syndicale qui comprend le droit de grève, ils acceptent un statut qui se révèle fort protecteur vis-à-vis de l’administration et de sa hiérarchie. Ils obtiennent aussi la gestion de la Sécurité sociale par leurs mutuelles qui les entraînent, en Seine-Maritime, à construire une mutualité départementale unifiée et puissante. Toutefois, la division du monde en deux blocs, un libéral et un communiste, traverse ces syndicats et aboutit à la scission de 1947. Cela n’empêche pas la participation aux grèves de 1953 qui leur permet de sauver leur retraite. S’ils soutiennent le général de Gaulle (1890-1970) dans sa politique de décolonisation et contre les généraux factieux, ils l’affrontent sur sa politique institutionnelle, économique et sociale. La grève de 1968 en est l’aboutissement, par-delà les remises en cause. Mais pour rétablir l’Etat social qu’ils souhaitent, il leur faut soutenir les campagnes électorales de 1974 et 1981 du candidat de la gauche, François Mitterrand (1916-1996), qui l’emporte en 1981, en dépit de leurs divergences et grâce à la volonté unitaire de leurs militants. / In 1944, the National Council of Resistance decides to rebuild a welfare state, in continuation of the Popular Front, that the second World War stops it. The trade unions reunified, in CGT (except CFTC) decide to sustain this program. The trade unions of civil servants from Seine-Maritime organize themselves to take part in this rebuild that they waited for it. What are their demands ? On What do they lean themselves to put them before ? What are their values for which they fight? Do they wait all from the state ? What is their idea of this welfare state ? At least, what means do they use to fight for it and bring it to progress ? Getting the recognition of their freedom union laws, which includes right striking, they agree civil servant status which turn out very protective against their adminstration and its hierarchy. They get too the management of Health Security by their mutual insurances which lead them, in Seine-Maritme, to build a powerful departemental mutual insurance. However, the division of world in two blocks, one liberal and one communist, goes through these trade unions and leads to the break away of 1947 That does not prevent the participation to strikes of 1953 wich they are be able to save their retirement. If they sustain general De Gaulle in his decolonization policy and ag ainst seditious generals, they clash him on his institutional, économic and social policy. The strike of 1968 is the culmination of it, throuhgout adjournements. But in order to restore the welfare state that they hope, they must sustain lefts’ candidate, François Mitterrand, in their electoral compaigns of 1974 and 1981, who wins in this last year, in spite of their differences and thanks to the Will of unity of their activists.

Psykisk ohälsa i arbetslivet är ett stort och växande problem i välfärdssamhället. Problemet har flera bottnar och väcker många frågor om vem som har ansvar, vad det egentligen är för ett slags fenomen och hur det bör hanteras. Den här studien undersöker hur arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa hanteras av yrkesverksamma inom vården, med fokus på företagshälsovård och primärvård. Intresse riktas mot hur yrkesverksamma personerna resonerar kring arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa, vilka dilemman de ställs inför och de strategier de har för att hantera dessa. Den söker också svar på ansvarsfrågan kring detta komplexa problem, inte minst i ljuset av privatiseringen av företagshälsovården. I studien används ett tvärvetenskapligt perspektiv, där begrepp från teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS), professionssociologi och organisationsteori kombineras för att analysera olika aspekter av vårdens hantering av arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa. Det empiriska materialet bygger i huvudsak på intervjuer med läkare, psykoterapeuter, kuratorer, arbetsterapeuter, psykologer, rehabiliteringskoordinatorer och  beteendevetare, men inkluderar även observationer inom primärvård och företagshälsovård. Hanteringen av arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa i vårdens vardag präglas av att orsaksbilden till problemet är komplext, ansvarsfördelningen otydlig och att psykosociala orsaker till sjukdom är kontroversiellt. I studien diskuteras utmaningarna och möjligheterna kring hanteringen av detta komplexa problem i bred bemärkelse. I analyserna uppmärksammas de yrkesverksammas gränsdragningar kring både ansvar och fenomenet arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa. Begreppet kunskapsinfrastruktur används för att förklara och förstå den kunskapsmässiga och materiella struktur som de yrkesverksamma verkar inom. Analyserna visar att de yrkesverksamma har ett pragmatiskt förhållningssätt och använder olika strategier för att skapa sig handlingsutrymme i hur de hanterar arbetsrelaterad psykisk ohälsa. / Mental ill health in working life is a major and growing problem in the welfare society. The problem is multifaceted and raises many questions about who is responsible, what kind of phenomenon it is and how it should be managed. This study examines how care professionals manage work-related mental ill health. Focusing on occupational healthcare and primary care, interest is directed towards how care professionals argue about workrelated mental illness, what dilemmas they face and the strategies they rely on in managing them. It also seeks to answer the question of responsibility regarding this complex problem, not least in the light of the privatization of occupational healthcare. The study uses a multidisciplinary perspective, combining concepts from technology and science studies (STS), sociology of professions and organizational theory in order to analyze various aspects of care management of work-related mental ill health. The empirical material is mainly based on interviews with physicians, psychotherapists, counsellors, occupational therapists, psychologists, rehabilitation coordinators and behavioral scientists, but also includes observations in primary care and occupational health care. The management of work-related mental ill health in everyday healthcare practice is characterized by the fact that the cause of the problem is complex, the division of responsibility unclear and that psychosocial causes of disease are controversial. The study discusses the challenges and possibilities of managing this complex problem in a broad sense. The analysis pays attention to the drawing of boundaries by the care professionals regarding both responsibility and the phenomenon of work-related mental illness. The concept of knowledge infrastructure is used to explain and understand the knowledge and material structures that the care professionals work within. The analysis shows that the care professionals have a pragmatic approach and use different strategies to create scope for dealing with work-related mental health.