PINHEIRO, B. L.; PINHEIRO, Brenda Alexandre.
Abstract:
Considering the current scenario of violations of the rights of children and adolescents
from a Brazilian perspective, we aim, through this monograph, to analyze how the
contemporary political agenda of the category of social workers in Brazil contributes to
overcoming the minority culture and endorses the conception of this public as subjects
of rights. In addition to identifying to what extent the Federal Social Service Council,
as one of the main entities representing social workers, has been expressing its
position, articulating the role of social workers from the perspective of promoting,
protecting and defending the human rights of children and adolescents and understand
conflicts, competing interests and challenges that put pressure on the materialization
of protection for children and adolescents in today's Brazil. We carried out qualitative
research based on bibliographic and documentary sources, especially legislation and
publications called CFESS MANIFESTA, widely disseminated in the professional
category. These documents were selected for our research, since, in recent times, they
express the entity's political positions and the category's fighting agenda. In this way,
we realized that, despite having laws that effectively guarantee and protect children's
rights, the reality based on the documents analyzed for this research contradicts the
legal standard, which allowed us to conclude that social workers must act together with
other sectors and various professionals to try to change this reality that affects the lives
of children and adolescents in Brazil.
