Perfil das políticas gerenciadas pela secretária de ação social do Município de Sousa - PB.

Abstract

Social assistance is a fundamental right of every citizen and the State must promote public policies that meet the social demands of the population. Public policies can have a federal, state and municipal scope or an interaction between governments and, as a rule, how they are approached in this work, they face a public problem. The main objective of this research was to characterize the public policies managed by the Social Action Secretariat of the Municipality of Sousa-PB. The methodological procedures for the purposes were delimited an exploratory and descriptive study and as for the means in documentary research; The nature of the approach was qualitative. The studied universe were primary and secondary documents related to the legislation and regulations related to public social assistance policies in Brazil, the State of Paraíba and the Municipality of Sousa. Considering the discussion of the results, it was possible to characterize all the social programs offered and / or managed by the Social Action Secretariat, but the Sousa-PB Municipality needs to concentrate efforts to increase the quality of registered information, as well as to review the basic characteristics of citizens Benefitted by the programs so that a fair and equal income distribution is made.