TASK1/WG1 - COMPARISON OF THE REGULATORY TRAJECTORIES, INSTITUTIONAL GEOMETRIES AND ORGANISATIONAL CONFIGURATION IN SOCIAL SERVICES (Months 1-12)

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Description

Aim

The aim of this task was to assemble and compare knowledge on the regulatory trajectories, the institutional geometries and the organisational configurations in the funding, planning, production and delivery of social services, as they resulted from the restructuring of welfare systems over the last thirty years in the different nations/regions participating to the Action. 

The regulatory trajectories referred to the evolution of the legislative frameworks regulating social services; the institutional geometries  referred to the division of responsibility between the national, the regional and/or the local government levels; the organisational configurations referred to the division of labour between the state, the market, the third sector and the family. Particular attention was given to differences in ‘welfare traditions’ and path-dependency in explaining ‘place’ specificities.

This Task set the context to carry out the subsequent Task 2/WG2.

Responsibility and Activities

This task was carried out by Working Group 1, coordinated by a WG1 Leader, and involved the following activities:

• Working Group organisational meetings to share preliminary knowledge, design a template for structured comparison and presentations, and plan activities.
• The first WG1 Steering Committee meeting was held in Reggio Calabria, on the 13^th of February 2012. A template for the presentation of national/regional profiles of the restructuring of social services at the first WG1 Workshop was prepared and circulated.
• Working Group workshops/conferences for the structured presentations and discussion of national/local trajectories in the restructuring of social services.
• A first WG1 Workshop was held in Oslo on the 18^th of June 2012, to present drafts of national regional profiles.
• A second WG1 workshop was held in Tarragona on the 17^th and 18^th of October 2012 to present final profiles and transversal thematic syntheses.

Participants

Methodology

A ‘template’ was prepared and circulated for the presentation of national/regional profiles at the WG1 Oslo Workshop.

Output

• Methodology material (templates), posted on the website.
• Brief national/regional profiles, in the form of internal working texts, posted on the website.
• Comparative synthesis reports, thematic (the five perspectives) and/or typological (the 5 welfare models), posted on the website.
• Self-evaluation exercise to assess the achievement of the objective of Task 1.
• Academic publications in special issue(s) of journals or edited book (depending on quality of previous output).