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Inclusive Society Within the Framework of a Transitioning Society: Examples from the Republic of Croatia

Inclusive society in Croatia is limited to the idea of inclusion within inclusive education and deinstitutionalization. Regarding several meanings of inclusion, the current role of Social Work profession is outlined in this chapter. What seems to be the most important driver for Social Work practice in Croatia is its profiling within formal structural frame, including legislation and institutional organization. In process of post-socialist transition of social welfare system, the system is becoming more complex in its structure. This complexity is nowadays visible in transformation from vertical to more and more horizontal structure where wider range of local stakeholders are involved. It is a transformation from sustainable forms of functioning to more unsustainable and insecure management and from unified and prescribed procedures to more participatory processes of decision-making. Social work shifts from top- down approaches to more bottom up approaches where new practices are developed

deinstitutionalisation ; inclusive education ; welfare state ; post-socialist transition ; social exclusion

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