This article presents the experience of evaluating social policies within the programme agreement with local authorities of the Ministry of Social Rights and Inclusion of the Government of Catalonia. The programme agreement is the main instrument for cooperation and planning between the Catalan government and local administrations. This experience has promoted the institutionalisation of evaluation by allocating specific resources for training, advisory work and the assessment of various social policies.
This article draws on the results of research carried out with victims of the armed sociopolitical conflict, migrant populations and peace signatories in Colombia. From these experiences emerges a theoretical and technical–instrumental framework that positions digital narratives as a methodological device within research and intervention processes in and from social work.
This study aims to describe the housing situation of people with mental health problems within a specific geographical context: the Segrià region. To this end, a descriptive investigation was carried out using a mixed-methods approach that combined quantitative and qualitative techniques. The fieldwork included 303 surveys completed by people affected and six focus groups: three with mental health and social care professionals, and three with people experiencing mental health problems.
Social services have ceased to be a social domain set apart from the broader economy, gradually becoming instead a dynamic economic sector financed through public funds. The methodology of this essay combines documentary analysis with critical reflection drawn from practical, academic and professional experience, and it advances alternative proposals grounded in epistemological pluralism. It seeks to recognise the forces at work and the main actors behind them; namely, the elites and power networks associated with today’s clientelist and often neo-philanthropic corporatist model.
This article examines the role of social work as a key player within the Third Sector of Social Action (TSAS, from the Spanish), emphasising its origins in the social movements of the latter half of the 20th century. These movements emerged as a civic response to the profound structural transformations of the industrial era, which generated new and complex social needs. The TSAS served as a channel for collective demands, progressively gaining relevance until it came to influence social, scientific and political discourse.
Concern over the violation of children’s rights has motivated this study, which seeks to evaluate the functioning of specialised, comprehensive intervention programmes that offer therapeutic responses to various forms of child abuse in the Valparaíso region of Chile. A mixed-methods approach is employed, examining critical elements of the programme’s design, implementation and outcomes, specifically in the cities of La Calera, La Ligua, Ovalle and Los Vilos. The study concludes that, although the intervention models used demonstrate statistical effectiveness, significant
The aspiration of anyone is to work in the field in which they have been trained. Although there is a strong vocational dimension to the profession of social work, the reality is no different. When entering the labour market, social workers in Spain have long faced the dilemma of either preparing for competitive examinations to join public administrations or seeking employment in third sector organisations, private companies or —more recently— pursuing independent practice.
The field of democratic memory has scarcely been explored as a specific area of professional intervention within the disciplines of social work and social education. Unlike other countries, Spain’s sole Democratic Memory Law dates back only to 2022, despite almost half a century having passed since the end of the dictatorship. One direct consequence of this persistent lack of recognition, justice and reparations for the victims is that it has denied families the opportunity to mourn, with trauma being passed down generationally to the present day.
The growth of urbanisation processes has diverse effects on city and neighbourhood life. These include the increase in social issues and ethnocultural diversity, which challenge administrations to adapt political strategies and intervention methods to ensure social coexistence and cohesion. The authors of the article conduct a comparative analysis of several processes undertaken in vulnerable, highly diverse ethnocultural areas within the Community of Madrid.
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.
