O PROCESSO DE TRABALHO DOS(AS) ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS NOS CONSELHOS DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL: AJUSTAMENTOS E POSSIBILIDADES

Abstract

This research objectified to know what are the ways and the working process products of the Social workers in the CASs of the municipal districts of Full Administration of SUAS of Rio Grande do Sul`s state, as well as the adjustments and his current possibilities for the effective of the social control. From this problem, the study took place on the themes: work process in Marx; work process of Social Assistant, political of social assistance, boards of social assistance and social control, which guided the development of research, which included the use of questionnaires to twenty two CASs, which have Assistants Social advisers. The analysis of data on the forty-three questionnaires returned showed, as products of the process of work of Social Assistants in CASs, its contribution to: the exercise of social control through publicity of PAS and the form of access to its services; the supervision of social services for assistance and evaluation of programmes and social projects; the socialization of political participation with the base represented and / or users of the PAS, with others advisers and other areas of social control. The most commonly used methods of work are: the meetings and / or surveys, conducted before the plenary of the CAS, seeking to organize the proposals of represented; the guidings of the proposals of their represented and the devolution of the discussions and deliberations of the CASs to represented and, in addition, the physical structure of the Councils (financial and material resources that this space remains), and the referencials methodological-theoretical, technical-operative and ethical-political learned in the process of professional formation. The principles of the Code of Professional Ethics were perceived as advocates for the defence of democracy and social rights of users. Even contributing to the effectiveness of the exercise of social control, the Social Assistants suffer, too, inherent adjustments of his condition of employee that, many times, imposes to representation corporatist interests, that stand out by the privatization of social services in PAS. The conflict of interest which crosses the process of work of the Social Assistants in CASs, deflagrates the need to aggregate efforts of the class and of the various organizations, for creating strategies capable of contributing to the agglutination of common interests of the subaltern classes. This will help to guide the exercise of social control, through critical and free participation, guaranteeing, extending and qualifying the social services, as well as the democratization of Social Assistance Policy (PAS)