Social assistance in Turkey and the provision of social assistance via single centre

Social support is defined as monetary, in kind or service support that has been made to poor individuals or households by the state. Social support programmes which aim increasing the welfare of the society and fighting poverty, should be shaped according to current chancing conditions and meet the demands of the people in the most suitable way. In that study; the idea of central system or implementation is proposed for a better service provision for the beneficiaries in order to implement social support more efficiently and use the recourses more efficiently.By analyzing the implementation of social support system in Turkey, the determination of the system?s problems, a new system proposal which is called the central system and the development of proposals to solve the problems must be done. In order to display the problems in the implementation; what the social support programmes are by different service providers and how they are implemented are displayed. In that study; the concepts of poverty, social service, social security, social support and social policy are detailed analyzed. By showing national and international legal sources on social support; social support institutions and associations in Turkey are analyzed. The welfare state concept where the social support activities are implemented at the highest level and context is analysed in a detailed way and social policy implementations in Germany, England, Sweden, France and the United States of America are mentioned. Also the historical process of social support in Turkey is explained begging from the announcement of the Republic. The main problems related to social support and solution proposals to these problems can be summarized as; the formation of a central system which gathers the responsible institutions and organizations under one umbrella; the determination of current and realistic evaluation criteria by reviewing the legal sources of the related institutions and organizations; gathering the information of beneficiaries from different social support organizations in a common system; the importance of the formation of common evaluation criteria and the idea of teaching how to catch fish instead of giving them? is underlined by emphasizing the formation of social support-employment link in order to make people continue their lives on their own.Key Words1.Poverty2.Social Assistance3.Social Policy4.Welfare State5.Central Management