Quando estratégias focalizadas em polítcas públicas universais visam garantir sua própria universalidade : o caso do Auxílio por Vivência de Situação de Insegurança Social ofertado pelo Sistema Único de Assistência Social do município de Belo HorizontE

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the necessity of adopting strategies focused on universal public policies, with the purpose of guaranteeing its own universality, on the premise that treating differently a reality marked by social inequalities can guarantee social protection to which the state has to bail. At first it analyzes the formation of social policies in Brazil and the arguments for and against focus and universalization, dialoguing contrary to the perspective of residual focus, which is only synonymous with channeling resources into the poorest, but rather defends the conjunction of both , justified by a notion of social rights, which points to the direction of a fair and effective implementation of public policies, as it reduces the distances that normally make the notion of equal opportunities embedded in the character given to universal policies unrealizable. From the point of view of public policies, thus, the text leads to consider that the actions of state provision must contemplate a format that adopts strategies focused within the purpose of a given universal policy, having these converging objectives that allow an intervention that leads to positive impacts in the context of social vulnerability, since it is a multifactorial and multidimensional phenomenon, which produces a heterogeneous structure of social insecurities, increasing inequalities and can lead individuals and / or families to social exclusion. For this purpose, with special emphasis on situations of vulnerability and social exclusion, the study uses the Social Assistance policy as a methodological strategy, which has a universal character, and to exemplify and bring understanding about the notes made, it is made the description of the Assistance for Experiencing a Situation of Social Insecurity, a focal action adopted by it.