Perceptions of professionals about the quality of residential care in the province of Pontevedra
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https://doi.org/10.7179/PSRI_2022.41.08Keywords:
child protection, residential care, children, education, helplessness, scaleAbstract
At the rate of social changes, new demands arise that must be solved through the unit of action generated from state regulations, the provisions of the civil code and regional legislation in order to protect the minor in situations of risk or distress . For this reason, the purpose of this study is to identify variables related to the perception of management teams
and psycho-socio-educational personnel about the quality of their work in residential care centers. A sample of 122 professionals who worked in this sector in the province of Pontevedra was studied, by means of the design and application of an assessment scale of residential
care that collects their opinions about professional quality, admission and permanence, resources, adequacy normative and future perfectives. The non-experimental, cross-sectional,
descriptive-inferential study of differences between groups that uses a non-probabilistic sample of volunteer subjects. In this way, the sociodemographic variables and the variables evaluated through the instrument are observed, described, analyzed and interrelated simultaneously and at a specific time. It has been completed with a multivariate statistical analysis.
The results allow detecting the needs experienced by professionals in residential care situations
as a measure of protection for minors, yielding significant differences depending on the variables under study. These results are discussed in relation to previous research and
legislative changes regarding child protection. The conclusions, limitations and proposals for improvement open up new avenues of research that will make it possible to optimize residential
care in the province of Pontevedra, making the resource comply as closely as possible with the guidelines and recommendations contained in the regulations on the matter and in
the specialized literature.
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