La l.r. 23/99 della regione Lombardia: una legge di carta o l'avvio di una stagione di buone pratiche familiari?

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay presents the systematic evaluation of a legislative provision in the family field from the drafting of the text to its implementation. The provision in question is the regional law 23/99 of the Lombardy Region "Regional policies for the family", which represents one of the first and most complete laws on family policies in Italy. In the first part of the paper, an evaluation of the legislative text is carried out, using a tool developed by Donati and Prandini, based on the AGIL scheme by Parsons, revisited in the key of the relational sociology approach; in this sense, the underlying culture, the purposes in which it is declined, the resources that are hypothesised to be implemented and the specific legislation for its implementation are enucleated. Subsequently, a study of the implementation itineraries is presented, in which the attention is focused on the objectives of family policies, from the more general to the more specific ones, linking them to the interventions foreseen for their realization, to then finally verify which are been actually implemented; also in this case, the presence of a subsidiary culture is verified through the AGIL scheme, the correspondence of the general and specific objectives of the law with the family transitions, the provision of adequate financing and the involvement of private social subjects and, in particular , of families, and, finally, the realization of interventions that are configured as relational services to the person, according to a relational design model. Overall, the Lombard law is presented as a "good law" of family policies, but it also presents some critical elements. If, in fact, from the point of view of the objectives, the ideal-type presented in the beginning would require a clear articulation along the family transitions, the aims of the law, on the other hand, pursue this end both directly and indirectly. Some phases and critical moments of the family life cycle recur explicitly (the formation of the couple; the purchase of the first home; the care of the children; the disability; the non self-sufficient elderly); on the other hand, on the other hand, we can say that the law even goes beyond the model, because, without intervening in a conditional way, it allows the areas of need to be covered by the autonomous organizational capacity of families and solidarity networks, which are supported because implement innovative interventions based on mutual aid. The ability to actively involve a plurality of social subjects is unquestionable, stimulating, in particular the social private sector to operate according to a family perspective. Even the economic resources put in place are decidedly significant, although in the case of loans on honor the logic of access is still cumbersome. On another front, while the openness to a relational design of services to families is manifest, the attention to the effectiveness of the interventions is still rather limited, which could emerge in the context of more sophisticated assessment processes and in which the same private social actors who carry out the interventions should play a significant role: the due obligation to "report" the use of public money for the financing of projects leads the region to pay priority attention to the control of the processes activated , which mainly uses parameters that measure efficiency, rather than the effectiveness of interventions.