Center for Social Work

Confession

24.September 2025 Author known to the editorial team

Help, the neighbor will not be treated

What if the neighbor has mental problems and harasses the whole building, and all the institutions pretend to be crazy? This text is written by a citizen of Belgrade who has been living in agony for years.

The beauties of parenthood in Serbia

05.June 2025 Ivan Mitkovski

Did we get half a million after the birth of the child? We haven't, and we don't know when we will!

"Did you withdraw money from the state?" - a question that everyone, from neighbors to relatives, asked us. And our answer, the same every time: "We haven't. And we don't know when we will." Instead of looking forward to the harvest without worries, we got stuck in a bureaucratic trap, because one paper that is not issued due to a strike stopped the whole process. In a country that boasts measures to boost birth rates, parents are left to fend for themselves - and wait

Suspension of work

24.February 2025. Ma. J.

Strike at the Center for Social Work

Employees of the City Center for Social Work in Belgrade went on strike on February 24 due to their difficult material situation and working conditions, as well as the employer's inadequate attitude towards them.

Parenthood

20.February 2025. Marija L. Jankovic

Adoption in Serbia: Do people really want only small, white, healthy children?

The Ministry of Family Care called out potential parents applying for adoption - that they choose too much when they want to adopt a child. The Adoption Counseling Center replies: "Shame, we are people who have overcome normal emotions."

Kragujevac

13.February 2025. B. B.

Warning strike of social workers

Employees of the Center for Social Work "Solidarnost" from Kragujevac point out that the conditions in which they work are degrading

The fate of man in Serbia

30.October 2024 Milica Srejić

Prisoners of other people's debts

What will happen to one married couple and eight single people at 51 Slanacki put, who are threatened with eviction? Who is responsible? What does the City say, and what does executor Ratko Vidović say? Finally, why are the citizens doubly damaged in this and why can they appeal only to the court in Cyprus

Society

16.October 2024 Milica Srejić

Waiting for love and a warm home: What are the obstacles in adopting children?

"Some unofficial information from the beginning of the year was that there are 730 couples in the register who are eligible, and that 350 children are waiting for a family to appear that offers what they need," Dragana Krstić from the "Chance for Parenthood" Association told "Vreme". . So what's wrong? What are the procedures and how long does it take to adopt children?

Novi Sad

22.march 2024 SZ/Tanjug/RTS

The Center for Social Work returned the children to their mother, a lawsuit was announced for the lawyer

The case of Ana Mihaljica, a mother from Novi Sad whose three children were temporarily taken away and placed in the Safe House of the Center for Social Work, which resonated throughout Serbia and the region and resulted in several protests, has received an epilogue

The "Mihaljica" case

20.march 2024 Biljana Vasić

Children are neither given nor taken away

"An avalanche of half-information and conspiracy theories about the sale of children, satanic sacrifice, drugging and sexual abuse of children and the organized destruction of the Serbian family by the institutions was launched. Messages are being sent that children are the property of parents and the nation, and not beings that have the right to protection," says professor of social policy and social work at the FPN, Dr. Nevenke Žegarac.

Chronicle

15.December 2023 MN

"Vreme" learns: Big robbery of the Belgrade Center for Social Work

The "Vremena" editorial office publishes a memo on the commission of criminal offenses in the City Center for Social Work in Belgrade, New Belgrade Department, signed by "employees of the New Belgrade Department"

Inclusive education from the perspective of parents

31.May 2023. Milica Srejić

If we don't all cooperate, we have nothing

"We had a complaint against a mother who, at a parent-teacher meeting, demanded from the principal of the school to move a boy with developmental disabilities who is in the class with her child to another school or a special room, saying: 'Why do you put such children in this school?'" , Brankica Janković, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, states one of the examples. What children with developmental disabilities, their parents and personal assistants face in schools

Human destinies

05.January 2023 Jelena Jorgacevic

The sick homeless man by Rada Drini: A Christmas story about all of us

If this were a Hollywood Christmas story, compassionate people with the help of investigative social workers would place a seriously ill homeless man in great pain in a state health institution where he would be provided with the necessary medical care. But this is a story about the Serbian reality

Society

26.October 2022 Jovana Gligorijevic

Femicide and centers for social work: Free assessment on the way to the grave

In the summer of 2017, Olga Lovrić and Maja Đorđević died in the same way: they were killed by their former partners in front of social work centers. Maji Đorđević's ex-husband, before killing her, threw his dead son at her feet. Two-year-old Petra B. from Vršac was drowned by her father on October 4, 2022, and then killed himself. These crimes are the result of the failures of the centers for social work