The social services to childhood and family: approach and proposals from social work and family intervention

Abstract

In this paper dealt the social protection system with minors, and its relationship with children without parental care, regarding issues relating with the Social Work role, and the most appropriated methodology. Firstly, we approach the theory of needs in their connection with the childhood stage. Specifically, we study the issues relating with the protection and unprotection in childhood. Secondly, there are three blocks about the objectives and hypotheses in relation with the following topics: methodology of intervention employed, the organization of social services in primary attention in the Spanish region and the coverage in a period of socioeconomical crisis. Thirdly, the methodological section has been differentiated in three parts: critical review of the data sources; exploratory interviews addressed to experts and documental analyses and comparing the offer of social services to childhood and family. Finally, the dissertation's conclusion sums up three results: 1) the relevance in professional support with families; 2) the divergences among Spanish regions in the management of family programs and unprotection minors; 3) the increase of necessities and the limits in the coverage in the period 2008 to 2014. Furthermore, others interesting issues have been referred to the limits of the research and the proposals in social interventions with families from social services in primary and basic attention to childhood and family.