SOCIAL POLICY, NEW LAW BUT ALSO NEED THE FUNDS Bruno Marchi " the Republic" of April 18, 2004
The problem, as usual, is to link the stresses from this legislation with a view 'cross'
law number 328 of 2000 and Regional Law No. 17 of 2003 stroke, without a doubt, a slight change in the conception of' assistance aimed at the integration and coordination services that provide social benefits.
Despite some controversy in progress and the sense of "big business" that the management of this sector, however, can cause (regardless of who these "big business" would think of them and those who suspect that you do), it is quite objectively the delay with which the reform of this sector advances in Puglia.
Responsibilities are varied and not easily explainable, or related tout-court with the political agenda. 'S view of the writer, that the scope is so complex and delicate for the significant aspect that concerns the human person, to be made inevitably slow evolution. It is hoped that this slowdown will be an opportunity to deepen and appropriate considerations and a harbinger of appropriate responses.
But it is also possible that this slowness is caused by a more widespread subculture, referring to the social welfare due to dynamic nature of relatively modern. In other words, from a technical and political will often continue to think about individuals (whether they are minors, disabled or elderly, to mention only some categories of citizens who may face difficult situations) as a problem of placement (" Where did it go? Which school will ever accept it?) And administrative ("You have the money to pay the fees?") Not always easy to solve because, typically, the "social cases" are programmable and have little sense of urgency, if not emergency.
The subculture of welfarism, in my opinion has a lot to do with a fragmented conception of the human person and his needs. A poor, a person socially weak and fragile, because of the fragmentation of its needs, is still deprived of their unity of personality. For example, the child or teen (As well as the disabled and the elderly frail) to defend and protect, is often fragmented in a long series of reports care - from his point of view certainly forced - ever since he began his "career" problem child or deviant : teachers, identifying those with learning difficulties and <>, social workers, acting on the size of the family with regard to the obligations (health and hygiene, nursing, etc.). psychologists, who often < > diagnosis because only in rare cases, in public facilities are in a position to cure, the educators, the constant search for appropriate educational strategies; teachers pedagogical structures, which, in most cases, you just have groped for <>, but without sufficient means, the difficulties, juvenile courts, attentive to law enforcement, the police, who are responsible to suppress and the list goes on or it could be drawn one from each category.
Furthermore, while the more social and political roots of poverty have been examined in a mindset, which was to "conceal the political issue of poverty and to silence the voice of the poor " , quoting Robert Castel, as you can think that in a short span of time there is a significant cultural transformation? This, however, does not mean that change is prevented. Should be in every part politics, revealing the mechanisms that conceal "the political issue of poverty" and ask yourself beyond welfarism is both old fashioned and more modern "social technique", to promote a more integrated approach to the person in difficulties, a less parcellizzante.
In this sense, the law to develop the integrated system of interventions and social services, 328, 2000, in fact, an effort seems to do it. The problem, as usual, is to combine the stress from this legislation, yet important and meaningful, although it came with a delay of at least twenty years, with a vision "cross" of the social problem as such. That is, take care of the problem (and poverty, I might add) over the limits set by the flags ideological (if ever again there be any) and faction.
But, unfortunately, I fear that these flags are upset that their drapery hide the paucity of interventions and their laughable, especially in when they raise their hands, or do you shrug your shoulders, but it's the same thing, saying "there is no money." Because this is the reef upon which they break even the best laws and the equally best intentions of administrators and operators. Both should be done, so you would and could do, but the gradual reduction of social expenditures is heralded, literally right and left, to hide, once again, the crisis of ideas and the crisis of the very concept of the human person, always Most often reduced to a political bargaining chip (so to speak) and the subject of controversy that lingers on and twist themselves not realizing that the "needy" increase day by day.
course, these are the fundamental choices of no small importance. "Investing" on a person like a teenager at risk of delinquency, it means not only to prevention in its various forms, but also prevent future this person, Chronic her discomfort, become drug addicts or in prison or a psychiatric patient, with "costs Social "at least four times to support and with little chance of full rehabilitation. Therefore, not only prevention but also "prognosis" social.
My daily experience, twenty years from now, although registering slight improvements in overall regional quality of social services, notes that the accounts need to be done with municipal budgets, that is the reality, more and more narrow in this area. In addition to determining the blocking of a number of initiatives this situation causes a decline in quality. As a result, increasingly, there is hidden, but to say that "something has been done" behind the finger of operations arranged, because low-cost, improvised, and almost never occurred in their success, forgetting (or, in many cases, not knowing at all) that have been offered some opportunities. For example, the European Union for years has funded specific initiatives and specialized, particularly for the primary and secondary prevention, but in Apulia were missed because the required level of quality already at the design stage, was very high. That these possibilities, if activated, were dashed by the same subculture which first I said, this time, however, applied the "logic" of the financing for its own sake, that the division under the patronage of the moment.
One answer, as well as an opportunity not to be missed, I think it is given by the regional application of Law 328, which is hardly necessary to remind, not only about the reform of the IPAB, as long as you keep these few hinges, not a trivial recipe, based on which the whole system: education, higher education and continuous training of operators, quality, monitoring and oversight of scientific work and attention to the person in distress and its mental reality are often not sufficiently adapted and evolved.