Sin ttulo de diapositiva

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Social Services a prerequisite for community
development. Synthesis Project Bucharest, 29
February 2008
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Social Services in Spain and our main
challenges within Europe Bucharest, 29
February 2008
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• New questions
• The growing North South differences.
• The globalisation of the economy.
• The communications and knowledge era.
• The massive introduction of TICs.
• The genetics revolution.
• The conservation degradation of the
  environment.
• The demographic change.

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• In Europe..,
• The revision of the Welfare State.
• Unemployment and job insecurity.
• The social dualization.
• Multiculturality.
• Inmigration from the South and East.

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Three different trains
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Third Class
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Second Class
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First Class
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New societal trends

• The social class system.
• The industry.
• The family
• The Nation State
• The only thing that really has been socialised
  is the risk of exclusion (Beck)

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The Welfare State is one of the great
achievements of European civilization, it is one
of Europes great contributions to the
world Amartya Sen
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Andalucía in Europe
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Andalucía in Spain
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Andalucia
Population8.059.461 inhabitants Area 87,268
sq Km. Disabled people 708.831 (10) .
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Structure of the Andalusian population 1998,
2013, 2028 Y 2043 (IEA)
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The Andalusian GovernmentJunta de Andalucía

• Spain a highly decentralized State divided into
  Autonomous Communities.
• The Autonomous Communities hold the exclusive
  competence on social policy, which makes
  harmonization difficult.
• The Junta de Andalucía is the Andalusian
  autonomous government.

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Regional Government Ministryfor the Equity
Social Well-being

• Competences in social policy within the Junta
• Disabled people
• Drug addiction
• Ageing people
• Childhood and Families
• Youth
• Women and gender policies
• Policies of inclusion

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• Head Office of Social Services and Inclusion
• Immigration.
• Returnees.
• Ethnic minority (Roma people).
• Groups with special needs (HIV, homeless, prison
  inmates, sexual exploitation victims...).
• Suburbs with special needs
• Social Volunteering.
• Head Office for Disabled people
• Funding programmes municipalities and ngos.
• Accesibility plans.
• Support people phisical, psyquical and sensitive

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The social exclusion causes

• Demographic changes
• High unemployment and lack of job security
• Increase in price of housing
• Reforms of social well-being policies
• School failure
• Insufficient attention to mentally disabled people

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The social exclusion social sectors

• Youngsters who do not manage to enter the labour
  market.
• Retired people.
• Disabled people.
• Women.
• Former inmates.
• Immigrants.
• Casual labourers.
• Citizens living in marginalized districts

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Some priorities

• Access to employment for people either excluded
  or at risk of exclusion
• Access to all social resources
• Minimum income
• Housing
• Access to education
• Prevention of defencelessness
• Health Care
• Intervention in zones of social shift
• Family cohesion policies
• Access to information
• Support of specific vulnerable groups
• Mobilization of social actors

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European Projectscarried out by the Head Office

• Interreg IIIA. Spain-Portugal. GUADIANA
  INCLUSION
• Interreg IIIC. REVOS. European Network for Social
  Volunteering Service.
• Interreg IIIC. Frame Regional Operation. GROW
• INCLUYES? National Awareness Raising actions on
  social inclusion
• EQUAL ATENEA
• EQUAL EURORROMI and LUNGODROM

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Some proposals - Active policies of social
integration. - The efficiency and quality of
public policies - Struggle against new forms of
exclusion

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Quotation

Leve fit, quod bene fertur onus The burden
which is well borne becomes light
Ovid