Suchergebnisse

El sistema de Servicios Sociales tradicionalmente ha sido el pilar del Estado de bienestar más impreciso, más débil y más sensible a los cambios sociales, económicos, políticos, y culturales, generando una necesidad de replanteamiento permanente. En el contexto actual de globalización neoliberal, vulnerabilidad, sociedad del riesgo y crisis estructural, tiene un especial significado. Es un sistema más irrenunciable que nunca para la prevención de la exclusión social, para la promoción de los colectivos afectados por la desigualdad, como la mujer, y para la protección de los excluidos. Sin embargo, la situación de los Servicios Sociales en España, a pesar del enorme esfuerzo realizado para acompasarse con los países de nuestro entorno, y considerando su adscripción al tipo de Estado de bienestar mediterráneo y a una trayectoria con unas singularidades propias que lastra un cultura asistencialista, un sector privado con una importante capacidad estratégica y una debilidad de defensa de los derechos subjetivos universales, se encuentra en un proceso de deconstrucción. Ese proceso, que muestra su creciente vulnerabilidad, viene determinado por una combinación de dos factores principales que comprometen su intensidad, la universalidad de los derechos y la igualdad de acceso a los servicios: una financiación descomprometida e insuficiente y una descentralización imperfecta. ; Traditionally, the Social Service system has been the State's pillar of welfare that has shown itself to be the vaguest, weakest and most sensitive to social, economic, political and cultural changes, giving rise to the need for permanent retooling. In today's environment of neoliberal globalization, vulnerability, society at risk and structural crisis, it has a special significance: it is an even more essential system for the prevention of social exclusion, for the promotion of groups affected by inequality, such as women, and for the protection of outcasts. The situation of Social Services in Spain, however, despite the enormous effort made to get in step with the countries around us, considering its adherence to the Mediterranean sort of Welfare State, and a history with some unique characteristics which hamper a culture of care, such as a private sector with an impressive strategic capacity and a weakness in the defense of universal subjective rights, is one of deconstruction. That process, which demonstrates its growing vulnerability, is driven by a combination of two primary factors which compromise the intensity, universality of rights and equality of access to services: uncommitted, insufficient funding and imperfect decentralization.

This study is the result of institutional collaboration between the Municipal Housing Office of the Ayuntamiento de Madrid (the body which is responsible for the Integral Rehabilitation Plan of the San Cristobal de los Angeles Quarter and the financing of the study) and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (which is responsible for its technical execution). Also, this project would not have been possible without the participation of a great number of people, residents of the neighbourhood, social organizations and public institutions committed to the quarter and its people. The motivating idea for all involved has been, on the one hand, the conviction that all urban improvements must be accompanied by a social intervention process in other aspects of Community Development (education, employment, culture, participation, social cohesion, etc.) and, on the other hand, the complete confidence in the potential that San Cristobal has as a space for coexistence and for relationships based on the values of respect, solidarity and democracy.