scholarly journals Innovation or Stagnation – Social Work Organisations as Models of Behaviour for Clients

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Mannie Sher
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Welfare Agencies ◽  
Prevailing View ◽  
Do So

Tavistock Institute of Human Relations1T: (+44) 020 7417 0407F: (+44) 020 7417 0566E: [email protected]:www.tavinstitute.orgW: www.grouprelations.comPresented at the conference:Reconstructing social work strategies in relation to authority and powerUniversity of Vilnius8th November 2013 SummaryThe profession of social work is fundamentally concerned about the persisting problems of socially alienated people and communities. Social work, by relying on its long heritage of practical experience, intelligent conceptual models and leading edge methodologies for change, works consistently to develop radically different approaches to helping clients. They do so by challenging the government, welfare agencies and charities to review their strategies and practices across society as a whole. The profession of social work also has to manage the tension between a prevailing view of welfare services as a burden on the public purse and one which views welfare services as being for the good of society as a whole. Social policies and good social work services are a wise form of endowment in the potential of individuals and communities whose considerable resources and strengths for their and society’s mutual benefit are otherwise wasted.Key words: welfare; social work; sustainability; alienation; autonomy and independence; power and authority.

Lord Dufferin and the Indian National Congress, 1885–1888

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briton Martin
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
New Class ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

In the spring of 1884 shortly before his viceroyalty came to an end, Lord Ripon wrote in an urgent manner to Lord Kimberley, then Secretary of State for India, about one of the more critical questions of policy confronting the Government of India: “You may rely upon it that there are few Indian questions of greater importance in the present day than those which relate to the mode in which we are to deal with the growing body of Natives educated by ourselves in Western learning and Western ideas.” Ripon was pointing to the existence of a new class of English-educated Indians within British-Indian society and to the failure of the Government of India to acknowledge this class and to absorb its talents and influence within the structure of British-Indian administration. That this problem begged for a realistic solution by 1884 and that it would continue to do so in the years ahead, he had no doubts whatsoever; it had been left too long to fester in a mode both damaging to the class itself and dangerous to British rule. In short, the English-educated Indian class had become a question of policy.Simply stated, as the opportunities for Western collegiate education expanded and the avenues leading towards entry into the East India Company's service became available, the doors either failed to open or were placed out of the reach of the educated Indians seeking entry. By 1850, with the new class in existence in limited numbers in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and Delhi and with additional graduates appearing annually to swell its ranks, frustrations began to emerge as the graduates found themselves unable to secure the public employment which the Charter Act of 1833 had implied was to be their just right.

Islamic Governance: Strategies for Relevance

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Chee Yung
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Functional Relevance ◽  
Common Understanding ◽  
Do So

Even though Islam is the official religion of Brunei Darussalam, more efforts are still needed to bolster functionality and relevance of Islam to the country, and implement an Islamic system of governance. This paper sets out to devise strategies in order to do so, to be implemented by three main stakeholders: Government civil service, the public and the international community. Five specific strategies are devised: formulate a single common understanding of Islamic governance; ensure commitment from top management; train and develop competence; engage the public; and engage the international community. The first three strategies relate to the Government, the fourth to the public, and the fifth to the international community. And at the core, of course, is Tauḥīd, or strong Faith, which would act as a guide to help individuals, the main agents of change, make appropriate decisions in accordance to the teachings of Islam, implement the five strategies to strengthen functional relevance of Islam in Brunei, and be able to work towards achieving the Maqāṣid of the Sharī’ah.

scholarly journals La Fiscalía española ¿Debe ser una institución independiente?

2018 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Juan Luis Gómez Colomer
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adversarial System ◽  
Public Prosecution Service ◽  
The Government ◽  
Adversarial Model ◽  
Do So

El Ministerio Fiscal español tiene ante todo un problema de identidad orgánica. Se desea que sea independiente del Gobierno, pero las normas confirman una cierta dependencia. El Ministerio Fiscal debe ser dependiente del Gobierno si se consuma la reforma hacia un modelo adversarial de enjuiciamiento criminal, porque ésa es la naturaleza que mejor cuadra con dicho sistema, en donde el acusado sabe que enfrente tiene a la Administración, que, cumpliendo con su deber público, le exige con todo su poder responsabilidad por sus actos. Hasta que se produzca el cambio, es mejor dejar las cosas como están. El Ministerio Fiscal no debe instruir el proceso penal ni dirigir la investigación del crimen mientras no tengamos el antedicho sistema adversarial vigente en España. Sería constitucional si lo hiciera, pero no está probado que esté preparado para hacerlo, y probablemente, a pesar de declaraciones oficiales, no desee asumir ahora esa responsabilidad. Con las normas y la práctica actual, correría el peligro de ser visualizado en los casos más importantes como un órgano no objetivo.The Spanish Public Prosecution Service has, foremost, a problem of organic identity. It is believed that it should be independent from the Government, but the laws confirm some degree of dependence. The Public Prosecution should depend on the Government if the reform toward an adversarial model of criminal procedure is pursued, because that is the nature that best fits a system in which the defendant knows he is facing an Administration that, fulfilling its public duty, is demanding with all its powers that he takes responsibility for his actions. Until the change is produced, it is better to leave things as they are. The Public Prosecution Service should not direct the criminal investigation while the foresaid adversarial system in not in force in Spain. If it did, it would be constitutional, but it has not been demonstrated that it is ready to do so and, probably, in spite of official declarations, the Public Prosecution does not want now to assume that responsibility. With the current laws and practices, the Prosecution Service would be in danger of being taken as a non-objective organ in the most important cases.

Quasi-Markets

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Mårten Blix ◽  
Henrik Jordahl
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Contract Design ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
The Government ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

This chapter discusses the conceptual foundations of introducing market forces in the public sector, drawing on pioneering work by the British academic Julian Le Grand. Creating market-like conditions in tax-financed welfare services (so-called quasi-markets) is a way to empower users and introduce competition among providers. Ideally, service provision will be efficient, responsive, equitable, and of high quality. Such ideal outcomes are, however, far from guaranteed to materialize. A crucial and defining characteristic of quasi-markets is that the end-users do not pay for the services consumed. As a result, care needs to be taken that the incentives of the buyer (the public sector) and the sellers (private firms) are properly aligned. The chapter also brings out the main challenges for quality and contract design that are discussed in depth in later chapters. A fundamental challenge for the government is to assess and monitor quality in welfare services, be they provided directly by the public sector or by the private sector.

scholarly journals NEW STUDY IN THE SPHERE OF WATER-RELATED ACTIVITIES

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Владимир Кузнецов ◽  
Vladimir Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Water Legislation ◽  
The Government

The article is the review of D. O. Sivakov’s monograph “Tendencies in Legal Regulation of Water-Related Activities”. D. O. Sivakov is a leading research fellow of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, a specialist and author of researches in the sphere of water and environmental legislation. The author analyses the study under review from the perspective how this study assesses the role of the state in the water resources management. The author supports the reexamination by D. O. Sivakov of the conceptual framework of the water legislation through the lens of proposed legalization of the “water-related activities” concept. The author’s conclusion resulting from the comparison of practical experience in water bodies’ management in a number of foreign countries is worth noticing. As such, the author focuses on the public services by non-governmental organizations and entities of the parties to the water relations. In his study the author confines himself to a simple enumeration of powers of some state bodies in the water services sphere, which is evidently not enough for building a holistic picture of tendencies in the legal regulation of waterrelated activities.

scholarly journals Legal Environment for Organic Production in the Eu and Ukraine / Pprávne Prostredie Pre Ekologickú Produkciu V Eú A Na Ukrajine

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Kateryna Zelenska
Keyword(s):  
Organic Production ◽  
Legal Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Standards ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Participation Costs ◽  
The Government ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

Abstract Agricultural exporters tend to enter into contracts containing quality or standard clauses. These provisions may refer to either international public standards or standards set by private bodies. The second are usually more dynamic and thereby may respond to the consumers’ demand more quickly. However, high participation costs may exclude a large share of producers from private standards schemes. The state may pick certain socially desirable private standards and evolve them to the public regulation, as it was the case of the rules on organic farming in the EU. The government may introduce aid to encourage all interested actors to participate in the scheme, although the policy space left for the government to do so is limited by the WTO disciplines for domestic support.

Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services: Negotiating Othering, Mothering and Resistance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Shwartz-Ziv ◽  
Edith Blit-Cohen ◽  
Mimi Ajzenstadt
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Reducing Power ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Welfare Agencies

Abstract Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped by this encounter. This study examines this issue based on fifteen semi-structured interviews with mothers in need of public housing in Israel who are activists in protest groups against the public housing policy. The findings reveal that the encounter with welfare services generated feelings of othering due to the meanings attributed to their homelessness and to the nature of their mothering. Conversely, activism was perceived as a practice for challenging, redesigning and reducing power relations with the welfare agencies. The findings also show that the encounter shaped the participants’ manners of activist mobilisation. The study contributes to the research literature on social work with women who live in poverty, by highlighting the important role of women’s activism within the encounter.

scholarly journals Welfare Co-Production: Hungarian and Slovak Reality

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-215
Author(s):  
Juraj Nemec ◽  
Mária Murray Svidroňová ◽  
Éva Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Mixed System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Civil Sector

AbstractFor more than 30 years the delivery of local public services has been undergoing change, from a style of delivery dominated by the public sector to a more efficient, more effective mixed system, characterised by variations in ownership and sources of financing. Concepts such as public-private-civil sector mix, partnerships, co-operation, and co-creation have emerged as ways of organising public-services production and delivery. Our case deals with co-production via the involvement of the third sector in welfare services. The goal of this paper is to map the real relations between public bodies and the non-governmental sector in the co-production of welfare services in two newer EU member countries – Hungary and Slovakia. The information obtained suggests that the examples of good practice exist, but at a global level the quality of partnership between the government and the non-governmental sector is problematic. The study also highlights important drivers and barriers determining the quality of collaboration and the results of projects – limited resources (mostly financial) to implement collaborative welfare innovations on both sides seem to be the core barrier.

Places of Protest: The Public Forum in Principle and Practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCarthy ◽  
Clark McPhail
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Public Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Do So

Protest events occur in historical time and geographical place. In the U.S., some places are now constitutionally privileged with respect to citizen access and free assembly and speech. These venues are known as the traditional commons or the public forum. It is our contention that in recent years (1) these spaces have been shrinking in number, (2) citizens have experienced increasing difficulty in gaining unrestricted access to them, and (3) such venues are no longer where most people typically congregate in large numbers. Nevertheless, as we will show, when citizens gather to express dissenting views toward the government at the turn of the twentieth century they overwhelmingly choose spaces in the public forum to do so.

The Engineers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Colopy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

I made it out of Bihar with no trouble, much to my surprise and Eklavya’s. On the drive back north he was busy talking on his cell phone and I was busy talking to another man in the car about ecological toilets. I had considered trying to camouflage my pale foreignness and look a little more South Asian with some sunglasses and a scarf around my head, but before I could do so we sailed right past the guard post near the border. The guards did not signal the driver to stop. I was back in Nepal. I tried to insist that Eklavya and his colleagues go on back to Birpur and their work, since I could speak a little Nepali and manage to get the transportation I needed. But good hosts that they were, they stayed and drank tea in Bhantabari until they could see me off in a bus. The suffering I saw in Bihar would seem to dictate the answer: remove the embankments as soon as possible. Let them melt back into a swirl of earth and water during each year’s monsoon floods. There will be some floods, but far fewer disasters, and the subsiding waters will leave rich silt to replenish the land. That is Dinesh Mishra’s solution. He knows it’s not likely to happen in his lifetime. As long as the public can be made to believe that what happens in Bihar is a natural disaster, probably little will change. Backing out of this man-made disaster, even with the visionary leadership Dinesh Mishra hopes will come someday, will be monumentally difficult. Even if the government decided to breach the embankments and let the rivers breathe, what about the highways and the rail corridors? Everything would have to be replanned, reengineered, retrofitted. And the work would have to be done well, not shoddily as has so often been the case in this region.

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