citat 19:33 Nov 4, 2008
Enligt artikeln: "Social services are organized and financed by the state, self-government administration and public budget, though they can cooperate with nongovernmental organizations. Social welfare provision consists of both cash benefits and care services for low-income people who are affected by at least the one of the following circumstances: orphanhood, homelessness, children in need of maternal care or parents having great number of children to care for, prolonged unemployment, disability, chronic illness, helplessness in child-rearing and domestic management, especially in single-parent and large families, alcohol or drug dependency, difficulties in adaptation to life after imprisonment, or following natural or ecological disaster. Social services are provided in residential institutions as well as at community level and responsibility for this provision rests on the social welfare centers at local level." |