FUNKCJONOWANIE POMOCY SPOŁECZNEJ W POLSKICH MIASTACH
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2008
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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SOCIAL CARE AND SUPPORT SYSTEM IN POLISH TOWNS
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The information obtained from the Local Authority System Analysis of the Association of Polish
Cities for the period 2000-2006 indicates an increasing number of phenomena which lead to the
worsening o f social security o f inhabitants of Polish towns and cities, and a constant growth o f the
number of those who depend on social support. At the same time the value of social allowances is
diminishing.
The results o f the study into the above show that there is no direct chain o f causation between the
funds allocated to social security payments in town budgets and the size of social security threats, or
between the outlays on social support on the one hand and the social sphere threats and the wealth of
a given town on the other.
The relationship between the size of budget outlays, the financing of social support and social risk
factors has been found to function much more satisfactorily in smaller towns.
An analysis of the security allowances structure paid from municipal budgets that were
subject of the study shows that apart from being very rigid, that structure has been for years
dominated by different forms o f support to the result that it has only very slightly activated
the resources o f the social support beneficiaries. Consequently, although many recipients of
social allowances receive support, those payments are only stop-gap solutions, incapable of inducing
a radical change in the social and economic situation of the beneficiaries. Therefore the risk
o f losing social security continues and the system fails to encourage independence and taking
one’s life in one’s hands.
The fact that there are no ways to change the conditions that generate the reasons why social
support might be required, may, in extreme cases, become an „incubator of inaptitude” because those
who become beneficiaries of social care institutions return to them with the same or even grater needs
or problems, constantly losing the feeling of social security, incapable o f taking care of themselves.
This may lead, in turn, to their entering the spiral o f longterm poverty and helplessness (not to
mention the quality of social care).
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 70, 2008, z. 3, s. 185-202