Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide students with the theoretical framework and the conceptual instrumentation necessary to be able to operate competently within the planning processes of territorial social services, in particular using a strategic perspective based on governance and participation. At the end of the course the student will be able to: analyze and describe in a competent way the ways in which social planning processes are carried out in the territories, identifying in them the characteristics of the different models; formulate proposals for the definition and implementation of the tools and processes that characterize social planning; evaluate the appropriateness and quality of the analyzed programming processes; propose suitable actions to support social planning processes in the process of being activated or in progress; formulate with appropriate terminologies and concepts proposals or evaluations concerning the theoretical and operational foundations of social programming.

The course is divided into three parts.

The first describes and discusses the concepts and tools that define the field of social programming. In particular, the following topics are covered: the principles and models of social programming; the peculiarities of social programming in local welfare; the concepts and practices of governance and participation; programming in a framework of outsourcing of services.

The second part illustrates the logic governing the outsourcing of services and the procedures by which outsourcing is carried out. In particular, the following topics are dealt with: the distinction between management and production of social services; the main tools for outsourcing (contracting out and cash for care); award procedures through the most economically advantageous offer; the possibility of using the agreement with the SB; the PPP scenario (public private partnership).

The third part presents the cornerstones of social planning and management of services in the model of the Lazio Region. In particular, the following topics are dealt with: the bodies and levels of social programming in the Regional Law 11/2016; the indications of the Regional Social Plan.

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Giovannetti M, Gori C. e Pacini L., La pratica del welfare locale, Maggioli, 2014 (cap. 3)
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Gualdani A., Il sistema delle esternalizzazioni nei servizi sociali: antiche questioni e nuove prospettive, “Federalismi. Rivista di Diritto Pubblico Italiano, Comparato, Europeo”, 2018
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