1. Social services and social dialogue in LT Guoda Vaičekauskaitė
18 December 2018
Guoda Vaičekauskaitė
Aušra Bagdonaitė

2. General statistics Population – 2 794 thousands
Disabled – 253 thousands
Elderly people (+65) – 547 thousands
Children – 533 thousands

3. WHAT SOCIAL SERVICES ARE:
Social services – the services aimed at providing assistance to a person (family) who, by reason of his age, disability, social problems, partially or completely lacks, has not acquired or has lost the abilities or possibilities to independently care for his private (family) life and to participate in society.
LAW ON SOCIAL SERVICES

4. PURPOSE OF SOCIAL SERVICES
To create conditions for the person (family) to develop or strengthen the abilities and possibilities to independently solve their social problems, to maintain social relations with the society, to help overcome social exclusion.
Social services provided to prevent and solve social problems, to ensure social security.

5. SOCIAL SERVICES RECIPIENTS
Children without parental care
Elderly people
Disabled children and adults
Children and adults at social risk
Families at social risk

6. SOCIAL SERVICE TYPES Common Special Social attendance
Social Services Directory (SAD ministro 2006 m. balandžio 5 d. įsakymas Nr.A1-93)
Common
Special
Provided to a person (family) whose ability to independently take care of a personal (family) life and participate in a society can be developed or compensated, without permanent specialist assistance.
informing
counseling
mediation
catering organization, supply of essential clothing and footwear,
organization of transport
socio-cultural services
organization of personal hygiene and care services,
etc.
Provided to a person (family) whose ability to independently take care of a personal (family) life and participate in a society cannot be developed or compensated by common services is not enough.
Social attendance
help at home
development and support of social skills
accommodation in an independent living home
temporary overnight stay
psychosocial assistance
accommodation in crisis centers
Social care (day, short-term, long-term)

7. SOCIAL SERVICE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
Ministry of Social Security and Labor
Municipalities
the Department of Supervision of Social Services under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.

8. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND LABOR:
Implements policy of social services (submit proposals to the Government, prepare draft of acts on the regulation of social services and social work; analyzes and evaluates social services and makes proposals to municipalities; prepares and implements social services programs and projects and etc.)
SADM įgyvendina 38 įstaigų savininko teises ir pareigas (32 suaugusių, 6 vaikų) ir yra vienos įstaigos dalininkė

9. MUNICIPALITIES (1) Provides social services to residents;
Controls the quality of general social services and social attendance.

10. MUNICIPALITIES (2) Plans: Organizes:
assess and analyze the needs of social services;
determine the scale and type of social services;
assess and determine the need of financing for social services.
the assessment of the need of a person (family) for social services;
according to the needs allocates social services;
assesses the person's financial ability to pay for social services;
buys social services;
establishes, re-organises and liquidates social service institutions and ensures their functioning;
prepares and implements municipal social services programs and projects.

11. SOCIAL SERVICES SUPERVISION DEPARTMENT
Evaluates, supervises and controls the quality of social services
(provides methodological assistance, evaluates the quality of social care, provides licenses for the provision of social care, checks licensed activities, etc.)

12. SOCIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
Common social services and social attendance are provided by those social service institutions whose sphere of activities is the provision of social services and the provision of social services complies with the requirements of legislation.

13. Social care institutions

14. Recipients of social services
Gavėjų skaičius iš viso – 201 tūkst.;
Iš jų ilgalaikė globa (stacionariose įstaigose) apie 16 tūkst.
pagalba namuose apie 35 tūkst.
dienos centruose 49,5 tūkst.
nakvynės namuose, krizių centruose apie 16 tūkst.

15. Staff providing social services

16. PAYMENT FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
The amount to be paid for social services is established taking into consideration:
the type of the social services provided to a person (family);
the financial possibilities of the person (family) to pay for the social services.
Informavimo, konsultavimo, tarpininkavimo ir atstovavimo paslaugos teikiamos nemokamai.
Asmeniui (šeimai), teisės aktų nustatyta tvarka gaunančiam socialinę pašalpą, arba asmeniui, kurio pajamos yra mažesnės už VRP dvigubą dydį (244 eur), bendrosios socialinės paslaugos ir socialinė priežiūra teikiama nemokamai.
Savivaldybė turi teisę atleisti asmenį nuo mokėjimo už socialines paslaugas.

17. MAIN PRIORITY AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Integrity of help
Community based services
Case management
Person-centered approach
Complexity of help
Mobility of help

18. Social dialogue in Lithuania
Regulation
Institutionalised social dialogue bodies
Recent results of social dialogue
Key challenges for social dialogue
Social dialogue in social services

19. Regulation (1) The Labour Code: The status of employer organisations
The status of trade unions as parties of collective bargaining
Collective bargaining and conclusion of collective agreements
Information and consultation
Setting tripartite and bipartite social councils
Collective labour disputes over rights and over interests

20. Regulation (2)
The Labour Code creates incentives for collective bargaining:
- in favorem and in peius regulation by collective agreements (e.g. working time)
- derogations from almost all provisions of the Labour Code by sectoral, territorial and national (cross-sectoral collective agreements) if the balance between parties is achieved
- collective agreements are applied only for trade union members (some exceptions at the employer level)

21. Institutionalised social dialogue
The Tripartite Council:
composed by members of national trade unions and employer organisations, rep. of the Government
responsible for social, labour and related economic matters
not only consultative and advisory body, but also decision making
Specialised tripartite and bipartite social councils by the sectoral CA in social services

22. Resent results of social dialogue
More collective agreements at sectoral level in public sector – sectoral CA on social services
National collective agreement on basic salary
National agreement on structural reforms – gives more influential role for social partners

23. Key challenges for social dialogue
Weak trade unions
Lack of trust between trade unions and employer organisations
Absence of trade unions’ representativeness criteria
Lack of collective agreements in private sector

24. Sectoral CA on social services
Sectoral CA concluded 18 May 2018
Applied for TU members in 35 social services enterprises which operates in 24 municipalities (19 – budget enterprises; 16 - social care institutions under the Ministry; employees TU members)
CA renewed on annual basis
Normative clauses (remuneration system; conditions for the improvement of professional competence; guarantees for TU activities)

25. Renewal of sectoral CA on social services (1)
Svarstomi klausimai, dėl kurių planuojama derėtis:
Dėl šakos minimalios pareiginės algos dydžių;
Dėl įstaigų sąrašo papildymo ir Sutarties taikymo bei sutarties taikymo naujiems profesinių sąjungų nariams;
Dėl profesinės sąjunginės veiklos vystymo;
Dėl Šakos dvišalės tarybos nuostatų ir teritorinių dvišalių tarybų pavyzdinių nuostatų;
Esamų nuostatų tikslinimas;

26. Renewal of sectoral CA on social services (2)
Current collective bargaining:
minimum salary amounts
supplement the list of new enterprises and application of CA for new TU members
development of TU activities
provisions of the Bilateral council of social services and the exemplary provisions of the territorial bilateral councils