The purpose of a Community Social Services Plan (CSSP) is to map local social service needs and compare them with local resources. In the Slovak Republic, the result of the development of the CPSS should be a policy-level document. The KPSS is to be developed in cooperation with providers and recipients of social services - vulnerable and other groups of the population. However, the direct participation of citizens, especially vulnerable groups, often does not occur, local governments often take a formalistic approach to this obligation. One of the reasons for this may be the lack of training in community planning for municipal staff and the absence of a methodology for developing CPSS.
Within the framework of the project, PP wants to focus on the specific municipality of Bratislava-Karlova Ves in order to carry out a pilot project for the development of the KPSS with the strengthening of the participatory character of the whole process. The whole process will be described in a manual which will serve as a basis for developing the CPSS for other municipalities and secondly as a study material of the social services curriculum. The manual will be publicly available free of charge on the PP website, thus ensuring the transfer of knowledge on the process of developing the CPSS to other municipalities. The output will also be a proposal for a general binding regulation (VZN) on the obligation of continuous participatory community planning.
As the project partners are a local authority and a representative of the education system, the results of the project will improve the delivery of social services on the level of local governments by providing a data-driven and participatory basis for local policies across the country and social services curriculum materials.