EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Social emergencies and crisis intervention in Hungary

Social emergencies and crisis intervention in Hungary - HU

Introduction

Social emergency services consider a situation as social emergency that would probably result in serious consequences (health, mental, social) without external help. This research report analyses the policy measures taken in this field in Hungary.

Description

The research report deals with the following issues:

What is a Social Emergency? - Definition, approach and actors involved
Who are victims of social emergencies? - Profile of rough sleepers and people in social emergency
Statistics and data: how is data on the homeless population in social emergency collected?
What are the different social emergency services? - Objectives, efficiency and evaluation

Conclusions

In comparison to the number of those living in the streets and the number of all the capacities provided by homeless service providers it turns out that many persons are excluded from institutional care.
The government transfers most of the responsibilities in the competence of local governments, but allows them the possibility to out-contract the service provision to NGOs or churches.
The majority of the homeless are single, aged between 30-60 and were born in Hungary.
The efficiency of helping people out from emergency situation is very low.
The present institution system, especially in bigger cities, is not able to tackle the problem of people in emergency situation in the proper way. Further capacity building is not possible because of financial reasons.

Contact info

Hajszolt Foundation (Hajléktalan Szolgálatok Tagjainak Országos Egyesülete – Association of Members of Services for Homeless)
Péter Bakos, tel. +36 52 530817

Publication date

01/01/2005

Researcher

Péter Bakos

Links

European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless - FEANTSA

National report on social emergencies and crisis intervention in Hungary (PDF, Eng, 110 KB)

Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Quality of life

Keywords

Social services