“What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients

Isabelle Lacourt describes and analyses close up the socio-occupational integration (SOI) work done in several welfare offices (CPAS-OCMWs) in the Brussels-Capital Region. In so doing, she pays particular attention to the schemes that have been set up and the tools and methods that are specific to t...

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Main Author: Isabelle Lacourt
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Language:English
Published: Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB 2007-03-01
Series:Brussels Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/398
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description Isabelle Lacourt describes and analyses close up the socio-occupational integration (SOI) work done in several welfare offices (CPAS-OCMWs) in the Brussels-Capital Region. In so doing, she pays particular attention to the schemes that have been set up and the tools and methods that are specific to these offices. She starts by reviewing the history of these welfare offices within local administrations and points out the linkage with the “active welfare state” benchmark. She then shows the concrete impacts that the rising importance of these SOI duties has had on the welfare offices’ internal organisation, to wit, the creation of SOI departments, their connections with basic social services, the ways they function, the specific difficulties inherent in SOI, the need to draw up a plan with each client, and the long-term relationships to which this leads.
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spelling doaj-art-8c6a7ddf397e4660be5465d1aefd26052025-08-20T03:34:51ZengUniversité libre de Bruxelles - ULBBrussels Studies2031-02932007-03-0110.4000/brussels.398“What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clientsIsabelle LacourtIsabelle Lacourt describes and analyses close up the socio-occupational integration (SOI) work done in several welfare offices (CPAS-OCMWs) in the Brussels-Capital Region. In so doing, she pays particular attention to the schemes that have been set up and the tools and methods that are specific to these offices. She starts by reviewing the history of these welfare offices within local administrations and points out the linkage with the “active welfare state” benchmark. She then shows the concrete impacts that the rising importance of these SOI duties has had on the welfare offices’ internal organisation, to wit, the creation of SOI departments, their connections with basic social services, the ways they function, the specific difficulties inherent in SOI, the need to draw up a plan with each client, and the long-term relationships to which this leads.http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/398social and professional integrationsocial aidactivation
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“What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
Brussels Studies
social and professional integration
social aid
activation
title “What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
title_full “What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
title_fullStr “What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
title_full_unstemmed “What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
title_short “What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
title_sort what are your plans the socio occupational integration of brussels welfare offices clients
topic social and professional integration
social aid
activation
url http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/398
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