In Emilia-Romagna, social districts retain the purchasing function for community interventions that are financed with public resources.
In Lombardy, the social fund is allocated to the social districts following a combination of historical expenditure criteria and per-capita criteria.
The local authorities that are responsible for social care are the social districts, administrative aggregations of local governments with coordination and management tasks.
The health care component of community health interventions is transmitted to LHAs and managed directly by them without any form of coordination with municipalities and social districts.
Different social districts may use different eligibility criteria, based, for example, on personal income, family income, health conditions, or employment status.
This fund is allocated first to the LHAs, who then transmit it to the social districts and also have an ex ante and ex post monitoring role.
Public production is frequent, and it is often realised by public social service companies that are active in many social care fields in both the residential and home care sectors.> Similarly, in Lombardy, social districts are responsible for purchasing social care services, whereas LHAs contract for community health services.
CHRISTINE SCHMIDT Brooklyn, May 15 , 2002The writer is supervisor of school social workers, District 15 Committee on Special Education, Board of Education.
He was responsible for recruiting young people from his social service district in West Berlin for the volunteer work program.
*Buildings and Miscellaneous: $6 million to modernize Social Services district offices in White Plains and Peekskill; $4.5 million to upgrade county office space, and $1.5 million to replace air-conditioning equipment.
