Lokale Wohlfahrtsarrangements zwischen Beharrung und Wandel: die widersprüchlichen Effekte von Ökonomisierung und Kontraktmanagement

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich am Beispiel der Jugendhilfe empirisch mit dem Einfluss der Modernisierungs- und Ökonomisierungsimpulse auf die Ausgestaltung und den Wandel lokaler Wohlfahrtsarrangements. Im Mittelpunkt steht erstens die Frage, welchen Einfluss Modernisierungsanstrengungen der kommunalen Sozialverwaltung und Ökonomisierungsimpulse auf die institutionelle Ausprägung lokaler Wohlfahrtsproduktion, d.h. die Trägerstrukturen sozialer Dienstleistungen haben. Zweitens wird untersucht, wie die Leistungsbeziehungen und Koordinationsstrukturen zwischen Sozialverwaltung und externen Wohlfahrtsproduzenten im Zuge der Modernisierung verändert werden. Angesichts offensichtlicher Widersprüche zwischen formaler Implementierung von Instrumenten des Kontraktmanagements und den tatsächlichen Wirkungen entwikkelt der Beitrag ein Modell unterschiedlicher Implementationsstrategien.The article explores the impact of administrative modernisation and marketization on the provision of social services in the exemplary field of youth welfare services and childcare. It deals with the effects on the institutional provision of services and the transformation of the relationship between local governments and charities as well as private providers of services. Facing apparent contradictions between the formal implementation of contract management and observed effects a model of divergent implementation strategies is developed

Making Prevention Work: Case Study Netherlands. Materials about Prevention Vol. 18 June 2020

As part of a larger project mapping preventive structures and policies for children, young people and families in 12 European countries, the Making Prevention Work study aims to provide a consistent base for developing preventive policies in Europe. It examines approaches across the EU that demonstrate success with local preventive work. The in-depth case study of the Netherlands presented in this publication is one of three published in the context of the Making Prevention Work study. Making Prevention Work draws on a concept of prevention that is framed in universalist and integrative terms. The concept is universalist in that it addresses all children and young people, even those not seen as being “at-risk.” It is integrative because prevention should be organized from a child’s point of view, not in terms of administrative responsibilities. As such, this concept targets the establishment of prevention chains that link different institutions over the life-course. Making Prevention Work includes summary factsheets of the preventive concepts, structures and practices mapped in 12 EU member states (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England (UK), Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden) as well as three case studies (Austria, France and the Netherlands) featuring data from interviews with experts and implementing actors