Social assistances that have been done to care seeking families as part of social municipality by local governments: Bağcılar Municipality sample

Improvements and changes in the world has caused the migration from rural areas to the cities so city population has increasing contiunously. As growing necessities of city populations increase, expectations from the public governments rise and differentiate and fullfilling these expectations by central government caused the concept of social state.However,central governments are inadequate to fullfill the demands of the public, the responsibilities of local governments has been increased, local governments strengthen and concept of social municipality has emerged.Within the scope of social municipality, municipalities embarks the function of social assistance to care seeking families besides the services of environment, health and educationAt this work, social assistances that Bağcılar Municipality have done for the care seeking families have been searched.It has been contacted with the authorities of Bağcılar Municipality, documents and data have been gained,application part of the work has been composed by examining and presenting these documents and data systematically .As a result of this work, Bağcılar Municipality has done social assistance to care seeking families such as ,foremost, food,fuel for heating, household items, and shelter, and it has been observed that they have been trying to find the real care seeking families by doing a comprehensive searches and considering the criteria of indigence