"Vi samverkar inte för samverkans skull" : En kvalitativ studie om socialsekreterare som arbetar med försörjningsstöd och samverkan

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to allow social workers who work with financial assistance to give their view of cooperation. We want to understand what opportunities and obstacles they experience with collaboration. The empirical material has been collected through nine semi-structured interviews with ten interviewees in nine different cities. According to both the previous research that this study deals with and Socialstyrelsen (2021), social workers who work with financial assistance need to cooperate with other actors in order to be able to perform the work that the professional role requires. This study shows that social workers who work with financial assistance face several obstacles in collaboration with other actors but also with other units within social services. Obstacles that stand out are lack of accessibility, lack of knowledge of each other's areas and lack of will. The social workers also believe that collaboration gives them knowledge of the work of other actors and that the work within financial assistance is made more efficient through collaboration. The study also shows suggestions for improvement regarding collaboration between financial aid and other actors. The study primarily shows a need for increased knowledge of economicassistance and the social workers' need to collaborate with other actors in order for them to be able to do the job that the professional role describes