Cooperation of a hospital social worker with state administration when dealing with an alternative family care

The diploma thesis focuses on the cooperation and communication of a social worker in a hospital with state administration bodies when providing alternative family care. The theoretical part defines basic concepts. It also describes the role of a social worker in the hospital in the solution of alternative family care and subsequent cooperation with state administration bodies that are participants in this process. The theoretical part is divided into two chapters. The first deals with social work in general, then specifies social work in health care and in the hospital. It describes the state administration, social investigation and the process of cooperation. The second part is devoted to substitute family care and the typology of mothers.The empirical part contains research, which was attended mainly by hospital social workers who deals with alternative family care in the hospital and pass information to the state administration and the Department of Social and Legal Protection of Children. The discussion part compares theoretical knowledge from the literature with empirical knowledge obtained by quantitative research