The activity of NGOs in Middle Pomerania after the end of WWII to the times of political changes and economic transition can be divided into two characteristic and distinct stages, i.e. one until the year 1950, and the other covering the years from 1950 to the political breakthrough of 1989. In the first stage, the activities directed at well-being of the child and the family were mostly undertaken by the Worker’s Society of the Friends of Children (Polish: RTPD), the Peasants’ Society of the Friends of Children (ChTPD), Polish Red Cross (PCK), Central Committee for Welfare (CKOS), the Polish Women League and the Society for Pupils’ Hostels and Scholarships. The above organizations kept sanitary and medical facilities, educational and care institutions, including children’s homes, correctional houses, preventoria, day care rooms, pupils’ hostels and boarding houses, crčches and kindergartens, ran summer camps for children, field kitchens, hospitals, night shelters, training workshops, catering establishments, outpatient clinics, ambulance services, health care establishments and mother and child care units. According to the data available at the archives of the Society of the Friends of Children in Koszalin covering the years 1946–1949, included in annual reports of RTPD and ChTPD, these organizations provided care to about 8,300 children CKOS attended to about 43,500 individuals, including children. The organization distributed clothing, footwear and medicine obtained within the framework of the structural assistance from the UN. According to data obtained from annual reports of the Polish Red Cross in Koszalin for the years 1945–1955, assistance was rendered to about 120,000 individuals. Towards the end of the first stage of the activity of NGOs, due to the changes in welfare policy of the country, many organizations were dissolved or had to change their profile. The most successful organization in the second stage was the Society of the Friends of Children. The Society provided social and vocational counseling services, ran day care rooms, kindergartens, village crèches, summer camps for children and summer and winter play centres. The available reports of regional TPD in Middle Pomerania for the years 1950–1975, state that there were 322 local associations of TPD in the region, amounting to 10,570 members. Work of NGOs in Middle Pomerania was basically determined by the long-run process of assimilation of the population that came from other regions of the country to new living conditions, by considerable war damages and lack of stability and security.
The article contains a hybrid structure of checking worked out on the basis of existing solutions: verifications for granting access to classified information and procedures for issuing an industrial security clearance before companies will start to work with foreigners. The hybrid structure of checking illustrates that cooperation of appropriate government agencies with NGOs could give Poland tangible benefits on many fields. But it can be achieved only when there will be no interference to their scope of duties. It is shown that the application of best practices and makes the necessary corrections to errors, will introduce a state of better security against criminal groups.
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Artykuł zawiera hybrydową strukturę sprawdzeniową wypracowaną na podstawie istniejących rozwiązań z zakresu: sprawdzeń udzielania dostępu do informacji niejawnych oraz procedur wydania poświadczenia bezpieczeństwa przemysłowego przed przystąpieniem firm do wykonywania prac z obcokrajowcami. Hybrydowa struktura sprawdzeniowa obrazuje, iż współdziałanie odpowiednich instytucji rządowych i pozarządowych bez wzajemnego ingerowania w zakres swoich obowiązków może dać Polsce w perspektywie bardzo wymierne korzyści na wielu płaszczyznach. Przedstawiono, iż zastosowanie sprawdzonych procedur z wprowadzeniem niezbędnych poprawek do wykazanych błędów wprowadzi również stan lepszego bezpieczeństwa wobec grup przestępczych.
Welfare in Poland has had a fairly long history. An analysis of the transformations in its approach and practical actions in this sphere embraces the period after World War Two. It was characteristic of the Polish People’s Republic to destroy any grass-roots initiative with regards to welfare. The state closed down many charitable institutions, limited their rights to represent the citizens’ interests. Then it took over the tasks of welfare, and became its only subject. The period of a thaw and gradual rebirth of independent social organisations took place in the 1980s due to an unprecedented fall in the level of living standards and limited aid from the state. The 1990s saw further restoration and development of charitable organisations together with civic initiatives. The state had also changed its approach to welfare, as it was manifested by the law of 1990. The present welfare system has the following features:– it is decentralised, the majority of tasks is conveyed to smaller administrative units,– defining the social risks entitled to welfare,– the claims of many needs,– dismantling the monopoly of the state in welfare and its subsidiary character,– a considerable participation of non-governmental institutions in welfare.
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