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International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 9(1), pp. 1 - 8
DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2022.090101
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The Challenges from Post-Soviet Social Work in the Small Rural Local Governments: Estonian Case in the Period 1995 - 2015
Vaike Raudava *
Department of Social Sciences, The University of Tartu, Estonia
ABSTRACT
Contemporary European social work is based on the principle of collective responsibility, human rights and social justice. The IFSW (International Federation of Social Workers) declared that social work was, and always will be, a human rights occupation. "The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights" was approved by the European Parliament on November 29th, 2007 (2007/2218 (ACI), and sets out rights, freedoms, and principles. Sohlberg [1] has commented that the fundamental rights are individual rights, independent of the identity of the beneficiary. However, the ability of a person to cope with his/her life independently is, for Europe, very important. The utilized methodology has been the collective case study according to Mills [2]. I followed the information-oriented selection: the cases of maximum variation by size and location [3]. Triangulation has been used as a procedure for acquiring data. Further analysis was conducted by using the complementary configurations according to Ragin [4]. According to the research findings, there has been tension between the fundamental rights of citizenship and social work practice. Analysed the availability, there could find the several risk groups, who are legally excluded from the local social work (welfare) system (long-term unemployed, person who cares for one's relatives). The responsibility for the care of a person during his or her long-term care, illness, or profound disability lies solely on the family. In the dominant practice, the local government supports only single (older) people, the decision-makers are according to "Estonian Family Law Act" [5], which gives the order of care to families first. This is the basis for giving and receiving social assistance and providing the social services such as home care services or institutional care services. Social work focuses on the needs of people, with a primary nature requiring that they be dealt with as part of mandatory laws. The actual challenge of Estonian public discussion should be how to ensure the fundamental right of every citizen to receive government support from a local government in the case of the need and in addition to the list of laws compulsory for all.
KEYWORDS
Local Government, Social Work, Practice, Post-Soviet, Estonia
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[1] Vaike Raudava , "The Challenges from Post-Soviet Social Work in the Small Rural Local Governments: Estonian Case in the Period 1995 - 2015," International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1 - 8, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2022.090101.
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Vaike Raudava (2022). The Challenges from Post-Soviet Social Work in the Small Rural Local Governments: Estonian Case in the Period 1995 - 2015. International Journal of Social Work and Human Services Practice(CEASE PUBLICATION), 9(1), 1 - 8. DOI: 10.13189/ijrh.2022.090101.