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coordination of skills, are aimed at the conjugation of synergies around common
objectives, including the fight against poverty and social exclusion and the consolidation of
social cohesion.
Social Network Programme
The Social Network is a structural programme and essential tool in the process of local
development, through the implementation of localised (municipality-based) strategic
planning processes, as a foundation for social intervention. This methodology requires the
use of reported Social Diagnostics, the implementation of Local Information Systems and
the organisation of Social Development Plans.
The consolidation of these Networks, which are intended to be effective and dynamic
partnerships, is embodied in the Local Social Action Committees (CLAS, on a municipal
scale) and in the Parish Social Commissions (CSF), platforms for the planning and
coordination of local social intervention, capable of mobilising all citizens.
National Commission for the Protection of Children and Young People at Risk
The Commissions for the Protection of Children and Young People in Danger are nonjudicial
official institutions that enjoy functional autonomy and act with the objective of
promoting the rights of children and young people and preventing or putting an end to
situations of danger.
The Commissions for Protection are based on the participation of the community and
local government, expressed in an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary partnership that
makes best use of the local dynamics in favour of prevention and protection of children
and young people at risk.
Educational Territories of Priority Intervention
Between the academic years of 1996/97 and 1998/1999 an experiment was done on
another type of relationship between schools in the three cycles of education and preschool
education. This involved territórios educativos de intervenção prioritária (TEIP),
located in areas where there are serious social, economic and cultural problems, a large
number of pupils enrolled in special educational support programmes and /or with multicultural
integration needs. This initiative was relaunched in 2006/2007, aiming to develop
projects, in a local base, to improve the educational quality and the promotion of equal
school access and success.
Specific objectives are: an improvement in the educational environment and in the
quality of learning among students; an integrated and coordinated vision of compulsory
education that favours a closer relationship between the three different cycles of basic
education, as well as pre-school education; the creation of conditions favouring contact
between schools and working life; the progressive coordination of educational policies and
the coordination of schools' experiences in a particular geographic area with their
surrounding communities.
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