TRENDS AND RESULTS IN ROMANIAN SOCIAL POLICY ? THE CASE OF CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM
Cuvinte cheie: social policy, child protection, social services
Abstract:
The following paper is proposed to be a case study which show the main developments of Romanian social services system, including through a deeper analyse of the child protection systems evolution in the last 25 years. In the first part of the study the author make a short overview of the European and Romanian historical evolutions in field of social services, ending with the main problems faced by Romania at the start of the new democratic construction. Evolutions of the last two decades and the present situation show an important effort for reforming the residential care system, and despite official social policy declaration and legislation a much weaker development of basic communitarian social services. The study try to find also if economic arguments, or efficiency arguments had or not a role in the design of the reformed child protection system.