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 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.
This article examines the ethical, operational and interdisciplinary challenges encountered by psychosocial teams in implementing the sentence reduction through reading programme within the Brazilian prison system. Drawing on a qualitative multiple case study conducted in five penitentiary units in the state of Maranhão between 2022 and 2025, the research analysed the practices of seven professionals (five social workers and two psychologists) through documentary analysis and participant observation.
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 describes a collaborative experience between Social Work students from the University of Barcelona (UB) and young users of La Casa Jove–Dar Chabab, a day centre in Barcelona supporting young community leaders, primarily of migrant origin and formerly under the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA). The collaboration centred on organising an exhibition and a Zentangle workshop. The initiative enabled both students and young people to share experiences, break down cultural barriers and build meaningful relationships.
This study examines the issue of racism within the university setting, focusing on the dynamics of prejudice and discrimination towards Latin American migrant students.
This article aims to present our professional experience in implementing the Municipal Model for the Prevention of Child Labour in the province of Misiones, Argentina. It summarises the progress achieved through a training activity resulting from cooperative engagement between the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the National University of Misiones (UNaM) and the Association Sueño para Misiones in 2020.
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 situation that has arisen as a result of the pandemic not only expedited the use of digital technologies, it also accelerated the digitisation process of society at a global level, especially during lockdown.
