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Dilemmas of social workers working with people in material distress
KOTISA, Jan
The chosen topic of this thesis is "dilemmas of social workers in working with people in material need." The thesis is divided into several chapters that primarily focus on an introduction to the issues of social policy and social work; further presentation of the Labour Office of the Czech Republic and the system of assistance benefits in material need; introduction to ethical issues and presentation of basic ethical theories. Last but not least, it also focuses on the dilemmas that a social worker may encounter when working with a client in material need and the application of ethical theories to solve them. The goal of the thesis is to find out what dilemmas social workers may face when working with people in material need, how they react to them and solve them.
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Causes of Long-term Unemployment in Strakonice
KOCOURKOVÁ, Irena
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out the causes of long-term unemployment of clients registered at regional branch of the Labour office of the Czech Republic in České Budějovice, at the contact workplace in Strakonice, in connection with the situation when the number of job vacancies at the labour market exceeds the number of job applicants registered at Labour offices of the Czech Republic. The impacts of long-term unemployment will be analysed following these problems, and their possible solutions will be suggested. The theoretical part of this bachelor thesis deals with the division of employment policies, kinds of the unemployment, possible causes of long-term unemployment, non-insurance social benefits, which are related to unemployment, projects of ESF for long-term unemployed people and the impacts of unemployment for both the individuals and whole society. The terms such as job applicant, unemployment benefit, contribution period, unemployment, rate of unemployment or the percentage of unemployed people within the population aged between 15 and 64 years, distraint, adverse medical condition of a job applicant and so on, are explained. The practical part of the bachelor thesis deals with the evaluation of set hypothesis by means of quantitative research strategy. The research was done using the research survey with clients (job applicants), who are registered at the regional branch of the Labour office of the Czech Republic in České Budějovice and at the contact workplace in Strakonice, for a long time. Two hypotheses were formed based on the set aim. We can deduce from the results of the research, that the cause of long-term unemployment of clients, is the adverse medical condition, not the distraint. In the conclusions of the practical part, there are mentioned possible options for solution of long-term unemployment of clients, who are at a disadvantage because of health restrictions, or they are affected by the distraint.
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Worker's procedures whilst carrying out social inquiries
MAŠÁT, David
This Bachelor's thesis attends to the procedures of social workers from the Labour Office of the Czech Republic when carrying out social inquiries (investigations) of non-insurance social and welfare benefits. The non-insurance social and welfare benefits, for which the inquiry is carried out, represents care allowance and financial hardship. The aim of the Bachelor's thesis is to map social inquiries carried out by employees of the Labour Office of the Czech Republic. In order to ascertain the goals, research questions were used, which focused on the job centre's employees' procedures that are applied when carrying out social inquiries in the area of non-insurance social and welfare benefits. Another research question asked about the differences in social inquiries in the areas of individual non-insurance social and welfare benefits. The theoretical part is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter attends to definitions, aims and methods of social work. The second chapter attends to providing insights into a social worker's work content, its characteristics and competences. The next chapter deals with basic findings about the Labour Office of the Czech Republic. The following chapter includes information about a subsistence and existential minimum. The fifth chapter closer introduces the issue of the system of benefits under financial hardship and its distribution to individual allowances. The sixth chapter concerns care benefits and the last chapter characterises social inquiries, its specifics and content. For processing the empirical part of the Bachelor's thesis qualitative research was chosen. The method used for data collection was the questioning method, the technique of a semi-structured interview. The interviews were held with eight social workers from one branch of the Labour Office of the Czech Republic. A closer specific was the uniform allocation of communicating partners between care benefit allowance and benefits provided under financial hardship. The acquired data was processed into individual clusters in order to make them more transparent. The research provided information on what documents employees abided by when carrying out social inquiries. Furthermore, the individual benefits provided under financial hardship and care benefits were compared. The empirical part describes how employees felt during the process, opinions on social inquiries and incentives for improving the methodology of the benefit system. The results of this work can be of help to students and other parties that take an interest in this issue. The work can also provide inspiration to individual specialists from the area of non-insurance social benefits at the Labour Office.
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The share of municipalities in addressing unemployment in the region
KŘENEK, Josef
The importance of municipalities in dealing with unemployment is increasing at present, along with the change of powers in regional self-governing units. Unemployment poses a serious social and economic problem. Unemployment may be dealt with by means of instruments of an active employment policy. Municipalities may use community service and public service as instruments of active employment policies to lower the number of the unemployed in their territories. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate the opinions of how unemployment should in the region be dealt with by means of community service and public service as instruments of active employment policy and public service. The thesis was divided into a theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part of the thesis explains concepts concerning these questions including relates themes. To achieve my objective and to verify the hypotheses set I used the quantitative research, in particular questionnaire investigation in the municipalities in the region of České Budějovice. The hypothesis ?Most municipalities use community service to lower their own personnel expenses? was not confirmed, and the hypothesis ?Municipalities consider public service as a possibility to increase the income of their citizens in material poverty? was not confirmed either. This bachelor thesis may provide the Labour Office of the Czech Republic - Regional Branch in České Budějovice with a feedback about the use of community service and public service.
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