Logic of Social Science and Social Innovation: Between Strategical Planning and New Partnership Welfare Models

Abstract

Community Planning Model, as a precisely addresses methodology of social programming within italian Law 328/2000, inaugurated the first great innovation of welfare system, referable to the forecast, building and implementation of Local Area Plans. During last years, further development of social programming models have been kept in comparison to different changing situations regarding governance dynamics, whose participation issues are the mainstream overview towards the full achievement of its efficacy, from the specific perspective of social protection policies. The aim of the article is to analyse some of the paths of change into social programming, evolving towards a new or renewed logic of welfare partnership, exploring consequently the value of relationships in participative approaches between public, non-profit and private sector, in order to optimize the dynamics of a collaborative multidimensional welfare model, as indeed expected to be and demanded by most recent regulatory accounts of European Community.