This essay is about personal Assistance for persons with considerable intellectual disabilities.The purpose with the study is: to examine personal Assistance for individuals, who can`t speakfor themselves, to examine how the individuals can determine and get influence into theirAssistance and how they can get help with it, to examine the role of an representative inrelation to the serviceuser´s Assistance and examine if there are factors of gender in theinterviews.The chosen method is qualitative interviews.The interviews has been analysed through earlier research about personal Assistance andtheoretical perspectives like: influence, integration and citizenship and discussed throughperspectives of social psychology.The main conclusions are: the influence the serviceusers can have is through persons whoknow them very well, the role of the representatives are indistinct, the serviceusers can´tdetermine their Assistance themselves and need help with it from relatives, representatives,personal assistants and managers, the persons who know the serviceuser intimately are best totransform the needs to Assistance. The factors of gender, are that there are more men aspersonal assistants than in the care of elderly, and the representatives are mostly men. Thepersonal assistants appreciates the time they have for the serviceuser, the work can be lonelyand demanding..

This essay is about personal Assistance for persons with considerable intellectual disabilities.The purpose with the study is: to examine personal Assistance for individuals, who can`t speakfor themselves, to examine how the individuals can determine and get influence into theirAssistance and how they can get help with it, to examine the role of an representative inrelation to the serviceuser´s Assistance and examine if there are factors of gender in theinterviews.The chosen method is qualitative interviews.The interviews has been analysed through earlier research about personal Assistance andtheoretical perspectives like: influence, integration and citizenship and discussed throughperspectives of social psychology.The main conclusions are: the influence the serviceusers can have is through persons whoknow them very well, the role of the representatives are indistinct, the serviceusers can´tdetermine their Assistance themselves and need help with it from relatives, representatives,personal assistants and managers, the persons who know the serviceuser intimately are best totransform the needs to Assistance. The factors of gender, are that there are more men aspersonal assistants than in the care of elderly, and the representatives are mostly men. Thepersonal assistants appreciates the time they have for the serviceuser, the work can be lonelyand demanding..

This study focuses on the influence a user may have over his or her welfare service, personal Assistance. A county, an Assistance firm and a user cooperative are compared with the thesis that the organisation that surrounds the users shapes the possibilities the user have to influence his or her personal Assistance. There are questions that try to answer if there are outspoken social goals within each organisation. Questions regarding influence of the user when she or he is choosing the Assistance provider and the users possibility to influence and his or her power to decide who and when anyone works as an assistant are asked..

People recieving social Assistance is today very common in Swedish society. Of those receiving social Assistance single mothers is one ofthe largest groups. The purpose of this study is to examine how single mothers with social Assistance experience themselves to be treated by social services, how this treatment affects their confidence in the social services and how they experience it is to live with social Assistance. To answer the question, we use qualitative interviews with three clients. Previous research has shown that single mothers receiving social Assistance experience vulnerability, and how they perceive it is affected by how they are treated by their social secretaries.

This essay is about persons who have had social Assistance and the individual?s experiences of social Assistance. The focus is on how the individual develops in a new life situation and if and how they are motivated to get out of it. The essay has an individual perspective where the relation between society and the individual is important. The result is based on four qualitative interviews with a hermeneutic perspective.

Sweden introduced a development Assistance policy in 1952 and thirteen years later Sida, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency started, in 1965. But in 1995, five separate development Assistance authorities came together and established the new Sida as it is today. Sida is Sweden?s representative in the development Assistance policy field and they work through projects that have to be presented through a Country Strategy Process (CSP). The aim of this paper is to point out Sida?s perspective on the conducted development Assistance policy and what guide lines that are followed.

The general purpose of this work is to study how social welfare offices organization affect accessibility for those seeking immediate financial Assistance in the municipality of Stockholm. Accessibility in this study is principally defined by Swedish Law. The study is based on an empowerment perspective. Data was collected by qualitative interviews of officials in eight social welfare offices. Search path to reach the officials was registered by participant observations.

Purpose: The aim is to investigate the mechanisms behind the destructive entrepreneurship in the Assistance industry.Method: To investigate the destructive entrepreneurship in the Assistance industry, we conducted a qualitative study in the form of semi-structured questions. In total, we interviewed four authorities and an employer organization.Theory: Theoretical framework: The study is based on Baumol's (1990) theory of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship and rent-seeking by Murphy et al (1991), but the study's principal theory that we have chosen to apply is the routine activity theory of Cohen & Felson (1979) that describes three elements that must come together in order for a crime to be committed.Conclusions and discussion: Our study shows that it is clear that there is both fraud and abuse within the Assistance allowance, which can be done in different ways. Some users simulate their illness that they exaggerate their need for Assistance. Some Assistance providers have abused the compensation by paying lower wages and empty false wages etc. The study showed that there also exists a type of human trafficking.

The purpose with this study was to investigate how parents experience their situation in life, having personal Assistance at home to support their small children with disabilities. Different areas were investigated. What made them apply for personal Assistance? How does the support affect the family and their parenthood? What would it mean if their children would not have personal Assistance? The study was made using a qualitative method and the material was gathered through interviews. A combination of symbolic interactionism and system theory were used as theoretical perspectives.

What Places Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, in Need of Social Assistance? A Qualitative Study of How Social Workers Whom Administrate Financial Assistance for Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, Describe Reasons Behind the Need of Social Assistance Amongst Their ClientsThe purpose of this essay was to study and compare how social workers whom administrate social Assistance for adolescents and adults, respectively, describe reasons behind the need of social Assistance amongst their clients. This was done due to the use of qualitative interviews with a total of six social workers. Of these six, three administrated social Assistance for adolescents while the other three did the same for adults. Prior research of poverty attribution greatly inspired this essay.

This study is about the child?s perspective when it comes to work with financial Assistance. The purpose of the study was partly to describe how social workers regard the child?s perspective in their work with financial Assistance and partly to look into whether they impose a child?s perspective in their practical work. To fulfill this purpose the authors used a quantitative method and sent out a web based survey to all the social workers actively working with financial Assistance in Stockholm town.

What Places Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, in Need of Social Assistance? A Qualitative Study of How Social Workers Whom Administrate Financial Assistance for Adolescents and Adults, Respectively, Describe Reasons Behind the Need of Social Assistance Amongst Their ClientsThe purpose of this essay was to study and compare how social workers whom administrate social Assistance for adolescents and adults, respectively, describe reasons behind the need of social Assistance amongst their clients. This was done due to the use of qualitative interviews with a total of six social workers. Of these six, three administrated social Assistance for adolescents while the other three did the same for adults. Prior research of poverty attribution greatly inspired this essay.

This is a comparative study examining one school with scheduled homework Assistance andone school without homework help tuition. The study has investigated the use of the schoolbasedhomework Assistance program at a grade school in a municipality outside of Stockholm.To what extent do the pupils use this resource, and what are their attitudes to it? Do theyregard it as a useful resource? What is the opinion of the teachers involved, do they findhomework tuition relevant and meaningful?The governing documents for the Swedish schools do not make the handing out of homeworkmandatory, and do not require that schools organize homework Assistance. The emphasis inconnection with homework is that pupils should learn to take responsibility for their ownstudies. There is, however, a commersial market for homework Assistance, at prices that arenot accessible for most parents, and some municipal schools have stared programs forhomework tuition.

The purpose of this study is to illustrate if structural factors to welfare indicators and the internal organisation of handle social Assistance in combination with dominating ways of living with their values and norms can be used to explain why the costs of social Assistance are low in Säffle township. The character of this study is exploratory, though important aspects in this case was unknown. The empiricism come from descriptive secondary statistics and from qualitative interwievs with three inhabitants in Säffle, whom are experts which means they know the township of Säffle and it´s inhabitants well. Säffle has been studied from four perspectives, of which the first two have a top- or macroperspective. In the study appears two divergent pictures.

For most pupils homework is a natural part of school and their education and there are several providers of homework Assistance: the pupil's parents, sibblings, friends, Internet forums, hired private tutoring, non-profit organisations and at times even the pupil's school. This study has investigated the use of the school-based homework Assistance programme at the Upper Secondary School of Psychology in Stockholm and why the programme is not more frequently used by its pupils. The school offers homework Assistance two hours each Thursday afternoon, with at least two teachers being present to tender for the school's 127 pupils. The cost of the programme has been estimated to approximately 12 500 Swedish kronor per week. Through the main use of a questionnaire given to both the school's students and teachers, as well as an interview with the school's headmaster, this study will show that despite receiving the opportunity few pupils take part of the programme on a regular basis.