Fragmented social care at the neighbourhood level

Urbanization across the world with its resultant growth of anonymity and destruction of the extended family has created an urgent need for new interdependent structures to care for individuals and families at the local level. Neighbourhood based employment created both income opportunities but played a vital role in providing daily social contact among members of the community. These provided an invisible and unstructured but nonetheless effective form of community care. Public services when seen as beneficial to small segments of a community further divide. Housing projects tend to create division between those in the projects and those outside them. Isolation from other neighbourhoods further creates tensions.

1. Social fragmentation
2. Lack of protection for the vulnerable
3. Lack of care
4. Deterioration of human environment

1. Unavailability of community centres
2. Social worker turnover
3. Reluctant neighbour accountability
4. Neglect of property maintenance
5. Lack of incentive to care for community property
6. Lack of facilities for the physically disabled
7. Isolated educational systems
8. Inflexible social care structures
9. Ineffective operation of community networks
10. Inadequate welfare services for the aged
11. Inadequate primary health care
12. Inadequate facilities for youth
13. Inadequate facilities for children's play
14. Inadequate emergency services
15. Inadequate community care for transient urban populations
16. Inadequate child day-care facilities

1. Unused gathering places
2. Social isolation of women at home
3. Neighbourhood control by criminals
4. Lack of social contact
5. Homelessness
6. Environmental degradation of inner city areas
7. Dumping ground label
8. Being a burden

1. Undefined social programme responsibility
2. Preoccupation with isolated problems
3. Paternal negligence
4. Insufficient supervisory personnel
5. Inaccessible administrative agencies
6. Dependence of communities on external planning

1. Inadequate care of community space

1. Strengthening social care at the neighbourhood level
2. Participating in planetary citizenship
3. Organizing comprehensive community care
4. Establishing community care network
5. Abstaining from structures for community care

1. Lack
2. Fragmentation
3. Ineffectiveness