English
norskAktivisering av unge sosialhjelpsmottakere - forutsetninger for overgang til arbeid
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/12394
Date
2017Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Activating young people on social benefits – requirements for transition to work
Young people on social benefits have a variety of complex challenges such as health and social problems, school dropout, immigration and previous child protection measures. This puts them at higher risk of being marginalized fromemployment. The individual right to a minimum economic security and to work-promoting measures from the authorities challenges how local authorities organize and carry out their work. In order to study which requirements must be met in the authorities’ services for young people on social benefits, we have interviewed 12 case workers in 12 different Work and Welfare Centres (NAV). Their descriptions have been categorized and discussed in light of the legal framework and literature. The requirements which, according to our study, must be met in individual cases are: (1) Identification of risk factors in the target group, in order to find the adequate measures and activities, (2) The importance of a co-operation relation between the individual and the case worker, and between NAVand other welfare authorities, and (3)Work-promoting activities, and how to balance the use of imposition in individual cases. Finally we discuss how compulsory activities for this group represent a formof contract between parties with a mismatched power balance. Unge sosialhjelpsmottakere har særskilte utfordringer som medfører en høyere risiko for
å bli stående utenfor arbeidslivet. Retten til økonomisk sikring og arbeidsrettede tiltak utfordres
av hvordan Nav organiserer og utfører sitt arbeid. Med utgangspunkt intervjuer med Nav-veiledere
drøfter vi rettslig og faglig hvilke forutsetninger som må foreligge i Navs arbeid med målgruppen.
Vår undersøkelse viser at de forutsetninger som må imøtekommes i enkeltsaker er:
1) Identifisering av risikofaktorer i målgruppen, for å komme fram til hensiktsmessige tiltak og aktiviteter,
2) En samarbeidende relasjon mellom den unge og Nav-veilederen og samarbeid mellom Nav og andre hjelpeinstanser, og
5) Bruk av arbeidsfremmende aktiviteter.
Til sist problematiserer vi hvordan aktivitetsplikt for unge sosialhjelpsmottakere representerer en form for kvasi-kontraktsforhold, mellom parter med svært ulike maktforhold.
Young people on social benefits have a variety of complex challenges such as health and social problems, school dropout, immigration and previous child protection measures. This puts them at higher risk of being marginalized fromemployment. The individual right to a minimum economic security and to work-promoting measures from the authorities challenges how local authorities organize and carry out their work. In order to study which requirements must be met in the authorities’ services for young people on social benefits, we have interviewed 12 case workers in 12 different Work and Welfare Centres (NAV). Their descriptions have been categorized and discussed in light of the legal framework and literature. The requirements which, according to our study, must be met in individual cases are: (1) Identification of risk factors in the target group, in order to find the adequate measures and activities, (2) The importance of a co-operation relation between the individual and the case worker, and between NAVand other welfare authorities, and (3)Work-promoting activities, and how to balance the use of imposition in individual cases. Finally we discuss how compulsory activities for this group represent a formof contract between parties with a mismatched power balance.
1) Identifisering av risikofaktorer i målgruppen, for å komme fram til hensiktsmessige tiltak og aktiviteter,
2) En samarbeidende relasjon mellom den unge og Nav-veilederen og samarbeid mellom Nav og andre hjelpeinstanser, og
5) Bruk av arbeidsfremmende aktiviteter.
Til sist problematiserer vi hvordan aktivitetsplikt for unge sosialhjelpsmottakere representerer en form for kvasi-kontraktsforhold, mellom parter med svært ulike maktforhold.