During our time as substitute social secretaries within financial support we heard colleges that criticized the magnitude of documentation. This critique sparked our interest of documentations relation to client focused work. The aim of this study was to create an understanding regarding how the duty of documentations takes form in the work of social secretaries. We seek clarity in what purpose social secretaries pay documentation and what function it plays in their work. We met with six social secretaries involved with financial support and interviewed them, using semi structured interviews. The answers received showed an understanding of the importance of documentation but also that it is a time consuming task. Documentation within itself does not lead to anyone being self-contained regarding their financial situation, yet the results show that documentation make up over 60% and sometimes 80% of the worktime of social secretaries within financial support. The time spent on documentation was thought of as necessary to fulfill the task the social secretaries are handed. One of the interviewed secretaries expressed that this balance of work tasks shapes their work in a way that cannot be considered “social work”. The phenomenon is analysed using professionalism theory and “acting space” as a theoretical concept.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-86167 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Johansson, Jonathan, Bäfving, Fredrik |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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