Vicario, Serena, Gui, Luigi, Sinigaglia, Marilena (2024) Embedding sustainability in local welfare systems: bottom-up contributions from social workers and care professionals in public and third sector organisations. European Journal of Social Work, . pp. 1-14. ISSN 1369-1457. E-ISSN 1468-2664. (doi:10.1080/13691457.2024.2368259) (KAR id:106670)
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Abstract
Sustainability, and how it may be embedded in welfare systems and services, is a much-debated topic in social work studies, with implications for the role that social workers and other care professionals play in this process. Analysing a local welfare system, this paper investigates professionals’ experiences of the organisational dimension of social services, and potential factors supporting a service redesign informed to sustainability. Professionals’ perspectives on sustainability, and their views on structural factors, barriers and methodological tools influencing the establishment of sustainable service networks, are explored. Data is drawn from a study exploring views on sustainability in care professionals in Italy (Veneto region). Eight focus groups, involving n = 26 social workers and n = 12 care professionals in Public and Third Sector Organisations were conducted using a photo-elicitation technique. Interviews were thematically analysed and interpreted through Boetto’s ‘transformative eco-social model’ (2017). Results describe the structuring of the eco-social intervention network and the (un)sustainable system aspects. Participants highlighted the benefits of participatory planning approaches, community work, new economic models, and organisational cultures fostering meaningful work. We conclude that social care professionals have a key role in catalysing grassroots change, and local services are privileged settings for building a sustainable, generative welfare
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/13691457.2024.2368259 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Sustainability, eco-social work, welfare system, innovation, community work |
Subjects: |
H Social Sciences R Medicine |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Centre for Health Services Studies |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2024 14:50 UTC |
Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2024 11:36 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106670 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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