PROVINCE OF TURIN

The "province" is the local authority between the municipality and the region. It represents the community, looking after its interests, and promoting and co-ordinating its development.

The planning approach of the Province of Turin in the social sector abides by a series of national and regional regulations, some of which are recent. This strategy consists of different yet consistent areas of action: social solidarity, policies for the family, minors and young people, policies for the aged, the disadvantaged and for the disabled, health, immigration, social security, time policies, and policies for equal opportunities, international peace and co-operation, labour and local development, all of which reflect objective differences in the types of problems to be solved, as well as in their objectives and methods. Particularly significant among the activities are:

1) large-scale planning and support for joint actions, with gradual development of planning skills throughout the social and welfare sector;
2) activities to assist local development and the propagation of negotiated planning (e.g. Territorial pacts, integrated area plans) to promote job creation and economic development with a view to social inclusion;
3) management of an integrated system of social services and operations to meet the need for lasting local development, partly by encouraging and assisting the creation of new businesses.

In the field off employment policies, the Province of Turin - which has taken on the important task of managing public employment services, drafting active jobs policies and promoting integration with the vocational training and education system - anticipated the model for 13 new job centres with a deliberation of the provincial council on 24 march 1999. This was designed to improve existing employment bureaux in the province.

Equal opportunities were included by the province in its strategic plans in the form of the territorial plan for equal opportunities (2001-2002) to intervene in cases which prevent the achievement of equal opportunities for women and men. It promoted an organic programme to apply the plan within the province - this was based on participatory policies, involving two forms of application: within the authority itself to initiate a different form of organisation and a decision-making process more oriented towards developing women's skills; externally, as an integrated feature of the economic and social development of the territory.

Within the framework of European planning, and with the support of the community policy co-ordination service, the province has shifted towards the European dimension.

INDIRIZZO
Provincia di Torino
Servizio Programmazione Solidarietà Sociale
Corso Lanza, 75
10131 Torino
Tel. +39 011 861.30.85
Fax +39 011 861.31.11
e-mail: life@provincia.torino.it
sito web: www.provincia.torino.it

Contact
Laura Vinassa: laura.vinassa@provincia.torino.it