Challenges of municipal community work

Autor: Witold Mandrysz, Marek Perlinski, Lars Evertsson
Rok vydání: 2017
Zdroj: Social and Caring Professions in European Welfare States ISBN: 9781447327219
DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447327196.003.0012
Popis: This chapter focuses on the pros and cons of involving professional social workers, employed in municipal social services, as animators of local community organising projects in urban, socially and economically degraded residential areas. Such projects aim at the active inclusion of inhabitants in improving their own situation and to promote social development. Local authorities can face great difficulties when using their own staff as the driving force of local community organising. The main difficulty is that many inhabitants have a negative attitude towards welfare institutions and frequently refuse to cooperate. The fact that the social workers are animating the project work for the local authority complicates the situation.
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