Portuguese Report. In-depth analysis of three family policy changes

• Author(s): Wall, Karin ; Correia, Sónia
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/22552
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Políticas sociais; Crise económica; Famílias
• Document Type: Report
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto da ULisboa

Description

The following 3 policy measures/developments have been selected for analysis in Portugal: • Delegation to local level (municipalities, local councils, schools etc.): the aim is to understand how local councils and other institutions such as schools or civil society organizations are stepping in to support needy families in times of crisis. Which strategies are being implemented at a local level to compensate for gaps in state support? With what means? And how do these actors perceive the impact of the crisis on families and the existing measures of support? • Income support for disadvantaged families (RSI): the aim is to understand to what extent this type of measure has impacted favorably on these families’ capacity to face poverty and to provide well-being for young children in spite of difficulties (e.g. high levels of indebtedness, undernourishment). • Third sector canteens/food banks : the aim is to understand how NGOs which have taken on this task, with or without public subsidies, are responding to disadvantaged families’ difficulties in this domain and how they perceive the gaps and problems in providing support and assess the public subsidizing of this measure.