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Experience of accompanying organisations by the realisation of agreements about the foster care.
KUBATOVÁ, Michaela
The Bachelor thesis focuses on social workers in accompanying organizations and their opinions on The Agreements on the performance of foster care and on the Quality standards based on Act no. 359/1999 Coll., on socio-legal child protection (SLP), as amended. The thesis has two main sections, a theoretical section and a practical one. The first section deals with family; its functions and existing forms of substitute family care in the Czech Republic. The next part of the theoretical section names and describes various forms of substitute family care and devotes a special chapter to the case of foster care. The following part focuses on the process of the foster care mediation. The theoretical part also includes The Agreements on the performance of foster care and deals with SLP Quality standards. The second practical section describes empirical research that analyses experience of charged persons and OSPOD (Authority for social and legal protection of children) with the performance of activities related to accompaniment of the foster families. The goal of the research is to unravel factors which contribute to the successful fulfilment of The Agreements on the performance of foster care and to analyse how the SLP Quality standards affect the performance of the foster care. The empirical research relied on three research questions: 1. What aspects of the foster families accompaniment contribute to the optimal/successful fulfilment of The Agreements on the performance of foster care in the case of charged persons and in the case of OSPOD? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of entering into The Agreements on the performance of foster care with charged persons and with OSPOD? 3. What is the opinion of charged persons on the SLP Quality standards and how do these standards, according to their opinion, affect the performance of The Agreement on the performance of foster care? The practical part applied the tools of qualitative research. The data gathering relied on semi-structured interviewing. The research sample included seven respondents: five social workers and two adult care providers from South of the Czech Republic. The results of the qualitative analysis show that the amendment of the act had a number of positive outcomes in the area of the SLP. Both social workers and adult care providers agree that the amendment of the act improved and broadened the access to the foster care and increased public awareness about the foster care. The introduction of the compulsory Agreement on the performance of foster care led to the establishment of new organizations that focus on the accompaniment of foster families. Furthermore, according to social workers, the fact that due to the introduction of The Agreement on the performance of foster care all foster parents now have the same legal rights and obligations is a considerable contribution. All key workers agreed on the crucial importance of the SLP Quality standards. However, they also suggested that there are numerous issues that still need be improved.
Social Protection and its Practical Use
BUKOVSKÁ, Terezie
This bachelor thesis is about the novelization of law num. 359/1999 Sb., about a children´s social-jurist protection and about the introduction of the term "a social curatorship for children and teenagers". The function of a curator for children and teenagers is clarified by the novelization. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is about history of social-jurist protection of children in our area and about the term "social curatorship". As the next there is a description of children and teenagers social curator´s work, which is specified in the mentioned novelization. In the next part of this chapter the institutions, which cooperate with curator for children and teenagers are described. In the last part of the first chapter changes which have become after the novelization are described. The Second chapter is about problem children and about children in upbringing institutions. In the third chapter the whole proces of introduction of quality standarts is explained and there is also the description of each standart. The research in this bachelor thesis set one main target and two subtargets. The main target of the research was to chart how the changes in the law about social-jurist protection of children influence the work of curators for children and teenagers. The first subtarget was to find out the curators´ opinions about proces of an implementation of quality standards of social-jurist protection. The second subtarget was to chart how curators for children and teenagers see the changes in an assessment and solving of individual cases. In my research I set three questions: 1. Which changes connected with introduction of standards of social-jurist protection are positively rated? How much have the changes become evident in a practice? 2. What changes connected with the introduction of standards of social-jurist protection are negatively rated? How much have the changes become evident in a practice? 3. Are the changes beneficial in the assessing of individual cases? And if they are, in what they are the most beneficial? In an empiric part of bachelor thesis the method of quality survey was applied. I used a method of a questioning with a half-structure interview for information acquisition. There were 5 social curators for children and teenagers from the town Brno in the final research group. I used open coding technic in procesing the research. Qualitative investigation shows that - thanks to the introduction of quality standards to the area of social-jurist protection of children - the proceeding of every employees is united. Every addressed curators have agreed that the declared simplifacion of this agenda has not become true. They even feel that the agenda has become bigger. The addressed curators are very satisfied with an expansion of education. They think it was very necessary and it is very useful for them.

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