Przemiany instytucjonalnej pomocy społecznej w Polsce w latach 2006-2013
Transformations of the institutional social assistance in Poland in the years 2006-2013

Summary/Abstract: Social assistance to approprietly carry out its role which is to enable citizens to overcome difficult situations in lives, should have an adequate organizational structure. For that purpose institutions of social assistance providing temporary as well as 24-hour care are formed. Diversified character of provided services and the scale of services provided as well as changes in the structure of target recipients of services force also changes in the system of care and advisory institutions. The aim of the article is to show the most important directions of changes which have taken place in the institutional system of social assistance in the recent years. In the theoretical part of the article the author makes a comparison of social assistance institutions, and in the analytical part she uses simple statistical methods studying the dynamics and the structure of a given phenomenon presenting the results in tabular and graphical form. Analysed data come from the annual reports of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy from the granted benefits of social assistance − monetary, in kind and services (MPiPS- 03) in the years 2006- 2013. On their base it is possible to state that social assistance in the institutional scope is assuming more and more extended character, and there are more and more communes led by non-public entities in its structure.

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