The networking of social services and the role of local government
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The article aims to highlight the fact that social and economic restructuring and new forms of social solidarity imply a new social role for local government. The working hypothesis is that the fight against social exclusion can be effectively
achieved through the activities of social services at the level of local government. The primary reform priority in the field of social policy should not be limited to the planning and financing of new programmes and structures for social protection and employment promotion, but instead should aim at the coordination and networking of existing, fragmented services and activities, in order to address overlapping and occasionally competing interventions, supervised or implemented by different units of central social administration.
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Κοντιάδης Ξ. Ι. (2016). The networking of social services and the role of local government. Social Cohesion and Development, 1(1), 49–66. https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.9003
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