SOCIAL SERVICE AND PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL ASSISTANCE: NEW PROFESSIONAL REQUISITIONS

NOVAS REQUISIÇÕES PROFISSIONAIS

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the main changes brought by the regulations of the Unified Social Assistance System for the administrative and bureaucratic organization and for the reorganization of the social assistance services of philanthropic entities that act in the social assistance policy. The main argument is that these changes have impacted bringing new demands to the work of social workers in a process permeated by contradictions. On one hand, there is the federal government attempt to adapt the work of these entities historically linked to voluntary work and charity to a new rationality of non-contributory public policy from a social rights perspective, and, on the other hand, the neoliberal conjuncture limits public spending, and strengthens privatization and refilanthropization of social protection. The research was carried out using the reading of some bibliographical references and the analysis of laws and documents of the Unified Social Assistance System elaborated at federal level. The new regulations brought the expansion of the occupational social space to the Social Service professionals, with new functions and attributions, from a technical-bureaucratic rationalization perspective, in a context of precariousness of work.