The “Padró per a totes” (municipal register for everyone) task force – whose members include anti-racist bodies and local community groups – has worked throughout 2023 to improve access to municipal registration for individuals suffering from racialisation in the city of Tarragona. The origin of this campaign stems from the participatory diagnosis “Derives Migrades”, which identified institutional racism within local authorities, particularly emphasising the obstacles encountered by migrant communities in accessing municipal registration.
This article sets out the testimonies of social workers of basic social services in Catalonia, focussing on the primary problems related to the internal operation of these services and the practice of the profession in our nation when it comes to addressing the chronic nature of poverty. The research underpinning this paper is qualitative and encompasses a SWOT analysis and semi-structured interviews with 18 social workers from across the region who carry out their professional activity locally at both town and county councils.
The Family Group Conference (FGC) is a model of family intervention originating from the Maori of New Zealand. During the 1980s it expanded to encompass other countries. The goal is to lend prominence to families so that they themselves and their network can make decisions to address their concerns.
Since 2017, Osona Acció Social has been promoting a pioneering experience in Catalonia with the FGC, training 50 professionals. This has given rise to a steering group that engaged in 14 attempts to implement the FGC between 2017 and 2021.
This research shows us various perceptions and experiences of individuals facing housing issues when it comes to the professional support they have received from social workers within the social services system. It does so specifically for the towns of Cerdanyola del Vallès and Ripollet (Barcelona).
A qualitative research project has been proposed. To this end, we have worked alongside users of the social services system experiencing housing problems who are part of the PAH Ripollet-Cerdanyola (mortgage victim platform) collective.
This paper sets out the main findings of a research study project carried out in 2018 and 2019 designed to identify the implementation features of the Más Familias en Acción programme (MFA – More Families in Action) in Calarcá – Quindío, Colombia, as well as to underline the connection the programme has to the current social policy framework and the transformations brought about for health, housing, work and education among beneficiary families.
Homelessness is a multi-factor, multi-dimensional, structural and dynamic phenomenon that hinders professional intervention and, on certain occasions, causes the person to fall back into homelessness after having achieved social integration. This research addresses the “revolving door” phenomenon, analysing both its scope and the potential intersectionality that exists among the factors that generate recidivism.
Bodies of thought is a text that seeks to reflect on thought and action, but in a living, conscious way from the perspective of social work: the need for mutual recognition in which profession and citizenship are part and parcel, and this cannot be achieved without common ground between theories underpinning our everyday practice and popular wisdom.
Primary care social services benefit from several methodologies to provide assistance to citizens according to the needs identified and any necessary diagnosis.
Reading Silvia Navarro’s inspired contribution to the global project on the improvement of primary care services will provide us with a decent spell of optimism and probably encourage us to reread it on subsequent occasions. The author leads us into the realm of reflection on our professional practice, which will allow us to question our professional identity and our role in “that idea of proximity and commitment to citizens that primary care encompassed... in which we all once believed, and some still believe today.”
Based on the track record of social work in terms of achieving the discipline’s goals and the widespread dissatisfaction among the professional community, this article seeks to propose a redefinition of social work. It reveals the need to steer away from the definition that pigeonholes social work intervention into areas focused on specific problems and instead move towards a more comprehensive intervention centred on needs and the community.
