A Política de assistência social como afiançadora das seguranças sociais: análise da gestão municipal no Centro de Referência de Assistência Social – CRAS Cachoeirinha, em Dourados/MS

Abstract

This dissertational study, titled – Social Assistance Policy as guarantor of Social Securities: Analysis of city council management at the Cachoeirinha Reference Center for Social Assistance (CRAS) in Dourados/MS aimed to understand social assistance in light of recent transformations that put it as a non-contributive social protection policy, guarantor of social securities regarding welcoming, income and social, communitarian and familial living or cohabitating, as well as developing autonomy and support and aid. Research aimed towards social assistance is necessary as the issue is current, since in the list of social security policies it is one of the most recently constituted as a System among Brazilian Public Systems of noncontributive social protection, and, therefore, little studied yet. The National Policy for Social Assistance is highlighted, taken as a theoretical basis, given emphasis to the set of legislations that sustain the legality of the Sole System of Social Assistance (SUAS) was. Perceiving the importance of understanding how the Capitalist State composes itself regarding social policies, theoretical grounding was sought in the point of view of authors such as Carmelita Yazbek, Ivanete Boschetti, Elaine Behring, Aldaíza Sposati, Potyara Pereira, Maria Luiza Mestriner, Dirce Koga, among others. This piece of research, of a theoretical and empirical nature, brings a brief contextualization of Brazilian social protection under the FC of 1988, from which the legality of social assistance as a policy of law is juridically founded. It was adopted the mixed method as a methodological form, articulated to the case study method, being utilized in data collection different research techniques, such as doing interviews with six client families and four Cachoeirinha CRAS workers, as well as documental research, direct observation and bibliographical research. This piece of research focused on local management regarding participation and protagonism of users and participation of SUAS workers. Emphasis was given to the management of the Service for Protection and Integral Care to Families (PAIF) and to the Service for Cohabitation and Strengthening of Bonds (SCFV) and social benefits, seeking to investigate users’ acquisitions regarding social care securities.