Vaiko globos kokybė vaikų ir specialistų požiūriu

Abstract

SUMMARY The aim of the „Children and specialists attitudes toward the child care quality“ paper is to analize a care organization draft in Lithuania and to survey prevailing attitudes among specialist staff and children about quality of organization. The main concepts are: educator, education, derelict child, emancipation, pupillary child, qality, standard, social service, child next of kin, child care. A few tasks have been taken on for writting this paper: to define the features of social child care in Lithuania; to compare them with those in Western Europe and the USA; to describe how the quality of social care is assessed in Lithuania and the present standarts of it; to conduct a quantitative analysis that would help to define the attitudes of children and specialist staff to the quality of care in these institutions. The survey was carried out by means of a diagnostic description questionnaire. Having performed an experiential analysis, it turned out that institutions lack social workers and psychologists (there are none in some of them) and therefore psychological problems of the children are solved with difficulty; not enough attention is paid to parents education and relating to the child‘s family. The results of the statistical anglysis of the survey revealed that the quality of the child care in these institutions is rated highly. The specialists are continually improving the quality of their servises in the areas of relationships with children, showing respect to children, helping them with their education, safety and health care. Thus, the performed analysis helped to indicate the problems of social child care and at the same time gave new insights on how to improve the social care work in the child care institutions.